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Art and How to Build It - with Art Quotations

Art quotations in art lessons
Art quotations and maxims aimed at developing artistry
By sifting through the compressed maxims given you could come up with neat guidelines fit for yourself.
        Dear art quotations are crowding below - many famous and not so famous utterances of many minds. Some outlooks of theirs were sifted, brought together and arranged in a way that is tidy and can be easy to learn too.
        There is a systemic outlook underneath each of the 'essay tables' below. It involves four differing modes (forms) of logic in one unified and systemic web which could make many other beneficient things easy to master as well. What matters in the long run could be this: keep good things up and be well prepared.

Contents

Frieze
Take care: Supporting "well medleys" are presupposed throughout:

Preface

Handy lessons, their place and value in time

Well-well?
Think "well-well" to fit in and avoid drudgery.
ON THESE pages we have gathered a variety of artist words on what art and artistic endeavours often deal with. Have a look. It could be fit and rewarding, but bear in mind that what is dealt with or written about, often are fairly long-lasting endeavours, which may be transposed into arts in themselves. All inside the life-long art of living, it is presumed. Many facets of such an art can be good and work for our good, in all likelihood. But much depends on one's conditions.
        The salient series of points below were arranged so that you can enjoy the tenets one by one, in part like good quotations and proverbs. And what is more, you may also take the trouble to learn the way of assembling a tentative tick tack toe route of some of them, in order to rise from a reader into a careful doer. It is possible. It needs concentration and thoughtful planning, though.
        On other pages you find the master instructions for it. Anyway, living up to good things is not always easy, especially not in the start if the conditions are burdensome. Then it may be far from easy to change things profoundly.
        There is a saying: "Words don't come easy". Another saying: "The way from thought to proper, fit action may be long and arduous." Even so, none should forget that very good and beneficient things in life may come more easily by strategic steps and good schemes - they are of layout. Roads may be well designed and levelled out to much benefit.
        Thus, clever thinking purports to help, and clever thoughts brought into system, may help even better, and so on. Much depends on you, where you are and those you are among, however. A friend along the road helps too.
        If you select a 'bundle' of our bon mots (nice-looking words) to exercise your mind and fare by, you should be aware that many such sayings apparently contradict each other. In the long run they may give rise to different schools of thinking and handling stuff later. They can also foster many self-contradictory beliefs we should steer out of.
        How to deal with it? Merge the sayings that work best for you and do it well enough, and try to stick to those to give them a fair try, for example. There are other ways too.
        As you see, our layman's cybernetics (called tick tack toe solvency building at times) allows you to 'tank up' much to think about and apply what seems best fit for you yourself.
        The advanced systemic outlook underneath the 'tables' below, encompasses four differing modes of logic in one unified and systemic web, actually.
Think: "This could very well be true. Let it sink in." Lots of persons would do well in training, enhancing and getting more and more accomplished in an attitude like that.

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Not a few artist words on what artists deal with, could be fit and rewarding for artistic development and good schooling. If you want to learn things thoroughly and well, you can ask those involved in these things; but you can also practice them firsthand yourself - the combination is generally good for most people, although there may be exceptions. Behind and on top of these assembled tenets is a "marrow": it is a depth structure, a grid. It is somehow like a scheme that may ease learning too. There are no tricks involved, but there are novelties in the art of teaching and learning. The grid belongs to a full-fledged educational system theory which allows for good use of bon mots as well as other enrichening statements.
       And yet, not a few sayings appear to contradict each other. That's how it is in life rather often, and there is more than one road into Rome too. Different outlooks may give rise to different schools of thinking and handling stuff later.
       They can also foster many self-contradictory beliefs we should steer out of. Our system thinking brings much and sound help here for some of those who try to learn it. It should not confuse anyone. The anchoring system (or grid) at bottom of these texts opens up to many fine outlooks, and could make more beneficient things quite easy to master.


Lessons in the art of loving and handling women and things

Lo THE EXPRESSIONS on art below could fit in neatly with love-making, getting it cosy and with handling assets - maybe mature women as well. So when you read, link it up with these suggestions, and sift according to taste or need or whatever.
      What is more, most sayings can be traced back to and aligned with utterances by major artists, art critics and many others. The truth is they were sifted and "tailored" on top of them somehow, one way or other. The brand new tick tack toe methodology is for those sorts of tasks and affairs too. It's no bluff.
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Chapter 1

1: First love, and if you want to express well ...

To dao

LoMore important than special reasons are ordinary ones that tie in with great, fit strides

Howdy WHERE WE live is a reality, the most beautiful thing, and like good art, it's also imperfect and untrue in one way or other.

Kingly art, I mean the art of making love and handling assets all right, links up deeply with sifted experience and can be glowing when humid night sets on later, and down in the valley.

The image-rich artist could really be needed. He's not at all to be a little peripheral figure entertaining rich people, he's more needed than that, more important than that. The outcome of the artistic incubation and its inner, hidden processings, may be quite like a melon that grows in man, like a child in its mother's womb. ¤

If kingly art is to be copied; it should be highly appreciated, as art can be a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside it for special reasons instead of surrender.


LoPeople say so many things to be able to talk on, talk with each other again and again out of bed

Old English Sheepdog PEOPLE say conversation is a lost art; how often I have wished it were and that good love-making art can NOT be immoral.

People who speak frantically are different, and people who speak a different language at times reaches artful levels at that. ¤


LoThere is no reason to say what you mean if no one is listening well

3 If you can't tackle things, refrain from them for as long as it takes to build reserves for handling them later - if luck or agreements could turn that way. (#1.1)


Summary: "The ordinarily great ones can be like melons"

THE MAN said,
Artful and ordinary is to handle a lot well over and over.
  1. MOST ORDINARY-LOOKING REASONS ARE REALLY STOUT REASONS AND WERE FIT FOR SURVIVAL. More important than special reasons are ordinary ones that tie in with great, fit strides.
  2. THINGS REPEATED MAKE MANY WORDS SUPERFLUOUS, AND GOOD FRIENDS MAY KEEP MORE SILENCE AMONG EACH OTHER. People say so many things to be able to talk on, talk with each other again and again out of bed. People who speak frantically are different, and at times reach artful levels at that.
  3. FINE MELONS ARE TO BE HANDLED ALL RIGHT, OVER AND OVER AND EVER IN JOLLY GOOD TIME - IT'S IN LINE WITH NATURE. There are more melons to deal with and handle than those you buy at the supermarket. Handle your two melons well, and in good time. There is no reason to say what you mean if no one is listening to it. Better stay on the safe side.
SO: Listen now and watch the time, to stay on the safe side: "Ordinary reasons often appear to be good friends that need to be dealt with in jolly good time."

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2: You say what you need and strive to appear elegant

To dao

LoThe main reason why artistic development often cures nervous problems and up to major diseases, lies in the gladdening of the libido or zest deep inside

Howdy LIFE IS not an exact science, is an art in itself and rests on the art of making love. So in art lies many an experience, not only personal problems.

An elaborate work of art can at times reflect an adventure of the mind.

Any great work of art revives a burdened wreck and lets someone breathe its strange, special air.

Elegant artists are not damned in the soul. Further, the stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Good art can be the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail - for there is the adamant way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion one must someday pass over.

No one should drive a hard bargain with an artist. [Ludwig Van Beethoven]

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease. [Voltaire]

The sole art that suits me is that which allows the whole world in its sweep.

There is an art of reading ... and an art of writing. [Isaac Disraeli]

It can be surprisingly hard for a creative painter to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all painted roses he took a liking to - and start afresh.

Art is like a lie that makes us realise somewhat better, here and there. [Cf. Pablo Picasso] ¤

If the great walrus is to be copied it could be highly appreciated as an art, and for more reasons than those that appear important first.

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the ... source of all true art. ... He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. [Albert Einstein]


LoTo meet a harsh-looking woman and faint from the sight only, rests on lack of reserves well inside, and can at best rise only to a dubious art

Old English Sheepdog IF MY husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint. [Mrs. Pablo Picasso]


LoOne may try to find out where, how often, to what extent and under what conditions public schooling is your enemy and enemy of the art of learning as well

3 THE ART of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on. [Ulysses S. Grant]

To know how to suggest is in the art of teaching. (#2.2)


Summary: "There is a need to look elegant"

THE MAN turned to us and said,
Amusements that look harsh, can still be part of the big cat's art.
  1. THE ART OF "MEDICINE" CAN'T BE DONE AWAY WITH. The main reason why artistic development often cures nervous problems and up to major diseases, lies in the gladdening of the libido or zest deep inside. The art of "medicine" consists of amusing while nature cures, much as Voltaire suggests. Amusements can't be dispensed with.
  2. HOW GOOD RESERVES FOR COPING CAN BE BUILT IN THE BODIES AND MINDS OF YOUNG ONES, IS PART OF GOOD UPBRINGING. To meet a harsh-looking woman and faint from the sight only, rests on lack of reserves well inside, and can at best rise only to a dubious art -
  3. WELL MASTERED STUFF IS REPEATED AFTER INITIAL MASTERY. ONE GETS ACCOMPLISHED BY THAT. It should pay to find out where, how and to what extent such as public schooling works contrary to how one learns and masters stuff. Good study is for that, and it helps to keep a heart. And to suggest these and many other things very carefully is also in the art of teaching.
SO: Amusements very often rise from being looked on as dubious in the first place, and many forms of arts have done that too. And what we call Voltaire-liked "good medicine" fit for coping can be repeatedly ingested -

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3: Thinking sharply and learning fairly well in time

Below is a serialised example of how the different sentences are taken, sifted, and new expressions get presented on top of their heads. I've done like that with the sayings above too. Through tick tack toe processing it can be easy.
      Now, wherever you find 'Cf.' in square brackets, the saying is really a new one, and mine: It means I take responsibility for it, no matter what others said.

To dao

LoThe artistic process consists in allowing the usual blunders a lot of times, to look impressive on others eventually

Howdy ART CONSISTS of limitation. Tune in to this: the most beautiful part of any picture that Gilbert K. Chesterson ever was allowed to see, was the frame. [Cf. Gilbert K. Chesterton]

Art makes something a lot more visible or audible. [Cf. Paul Klee]

The artistic temperament looks a bit like the diseases tuberculosis and syphilis mingled: It can become the direct organisation of more highly evolved sensations. Culinary artistry lies in no-nonsense too - at times. [Cf. Gilbert K. Chesterton and Guy Debord]

Most experts know of no substitute whatever for the artistic process. Its outcomes hint at what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly. [Cf. Henry James and Aldous Huxley]

Art! Who comprehends her? With whom can one consult concerning this great goddess? [Ludwig Van Beethoven]

To serve grand ideas with a major work is not bad, nor is it all there is to art. [Cf. Vaclav Havel]

Every great work of art has a face toward eternity. [Cf. Daniel Barenboim]

Art is about getting accomplished. In America the successful writer or picture-painter can turn into one of the decent-looking businessmen. Those sides of art can come as a revelation to some. Art itself can be a revelation of man. [Cf. Sinclair Lewis and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] ¤

Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere, and politics is the art of preventing people from sticking their noses in things that are properly their business. Politics is also the art of preventing people from sticking to much that was formerly their business. [Gilbert K. Chesterton and Paul Valery]

Art ... can become the direct organisation of more highly evolved sensations. [Guy Debord]

Few things turn so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject. [Cf. George Santayana]

The artist must know of how to impress on others the truth of his airy lies - they include the perspectives that are made use of too. [Cf. Pablo Picasso]

Wherever good art appears, pointless to geese and perhaps too beneficial to some, sordid conditioning in life happens to get less. [Cf. Günther Grass and Francis Picabia]

The more minimal the art, the more needs for savoury explanations. [Cf. Hilton Kramer]

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing, in so far as it stands ready against the accidental and the unforeseen, and is not apt to fall. [Marcus Aurelius Antoninus]

Those who write or make love for mink or sudden fame, they take a lot, and the public history of modern art and a current marriage-divorce roulette is one of not knowing exactly what one is dealing with for a long time. [Cf. Edward Dahlberg and Robert Motherwell]


LoThe whole world turns into a slipshod mess where mankind rules and burns down good forests: good art is significantly different

Old English Sheepdog SCIENCE AND art should encompass the whole world, allowing for nationality. Besides, deft cat bathing is a little martial art, and no creature of nature is inferior to art. [Cf. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe]

One of the stiff distinctions of the artist is that he must actively cultivate a state that most men try to avoid: the state of being alone. Another distinction is that if he has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he could make a bad husband and an ill provider. [Cf. James Baldwin and Ralph Waldo Emerson]

The work of art must seize upon you if it is to spell into your whole world. It is the means by which the artist conveys some confluent je ne sais quoi ("I know not what"). It is the current which he puts forth in his slipshod passion. [Cf. Jules Renard]


LoSet the artist free to be without directions from over his head, and at long last old ladies of another generation welcomes his efforts

3 SOCIETY must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him. [John F. Kennedy (partial)]

Pointless to old ladies and yet good for something, new, good art is too serious to be taken just literally and seriously. [Cf. Günther Grass and Ad Reinhardt] (#3.1)


Summary:

"Best sort of thinking is cogent and sharp, and can be learnt and taught in gross outline all the same"
THE MAN said,
Not to be free and fair often goes counter to really likable development - I can grasp that one.
  1. LOOKING IMPRESSIVE IS ALPHA AND OMEGA OF STOUTNESS. The artistic process consists in allowing the usual blunders a lot of times, to look impressive on others eventually. Who comprehends good art but stout individuals?
  2. BURNING AND RUINING WORKS OF ART IS FAR FROM THE GOOD ART ITSELF. The whole world turns into a slipshod mess where mankind rules and burns down good forests: good art is significantly different.
  3. INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE NOT OUTER-STEERED (OUTER-DIRECTED) CAN KNOW AND MASTER A LOT FROM DEEP INSIDE, LIKE PABLO PICASSO. Set the artist free to be without directions from over his head, and at long last old ladies of another generation welcomes his efforts.
SO: Really stout art comes from deeper inside. Good love-making tends to come naturally, much by itself, in part.
      The good art looks impressive, like works of the mature Pablo Picasso.
      Art links up to artistic development and "rules" for having art through such stout individuals.

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4: The solid, relevant art of living should suit us

To dao

LoThe art of being Christian is enough for a lot of purposes, the New Testament being as it is - a jumbled mess

Howdy I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an accomplished artistic process.—Wherever sound art appears, a lo oft life disappears. [Cf. Henry James and Francis Picabia]

Art is [often] on the side of the oppressed. ... If art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors? [Nadine Gordimer]

Through art we express our conception of what nature is not.—Were art to redeem man, it could do so only by saving him from the seriousness of life and restoring him to an unexpected boyishness. [Pablo Picasso and Jose Ortega Y Gasset]

Art never improves, but it can be some objectification of feeling. [T. S. Eliot and Suzanne K. Langer]

The finest works of art make it possible for us to know, if just for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly—I have seen and heard much, but never expected to hear a coxcomb ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public's face. [Cf. Aldous Huxley and John Ruskin]

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises. [Samuel Butler] ¤

I am not mad.—The public history of modern art is the story of conventional people not knowing what they are dealing with. [Salvadore Dali and Robert Motherwell] ¤

The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs ... in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain.—The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. [Gilbert K. Chesterton and Cyril Connolly]

The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world, himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep.—Art is not be coquetted with, and she repays with grand triumphs. [Cf. Gilbert K. Chesterton and Charlotte Saunders Cushman]

The progress of an artist can look like a continual self-sacrifice, a continual smoldering of the individual assets.—Art is a bland mistress: if a man has a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture or philosophy, he makes a bad husband and an ill provider. [Cf. T. S. Eliot and Ralph Waldo Emerson]


LoThere is much work at the bottom of seemingly effortless work in art and encounters

Old English Sheepdog The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. [George Santayana]

There is no need to get crucified if you know how to live. ¤


LoCopying a lot may turn into beginner's mistakes in the artistic development

3 It's a beginner's mistake to assume that art which is rooted in copying, can be very elevated. It's not even very serious art. (#4.3)


Summary

"From our hard-won art of living: What is fit in the long run, suits us fairly well now and without much fuss about it"
THE MAN said the tick tack toe art of statements has been recently developed:
Mankind's coping was served by buildings within limits.
  1. JUMBLED, FRAGMENTED STATEMENTS CAN BE ALL RIGHT STRUCTURED THROUGH OUR SYSTEM; WE COULD EVEN HELP POLITICAL PARTIES. The art of being a Calvinist is enough for a lot of purposes, the New Testament being as it is - a jumbled and often incoherent mass of statements.
  2. GOOD WORK AT STRUCTURAL FUNDAMENTS ALLOWS SURPRISINGLY SPECTACULAR BUILDINGS ON TOP OF IT. There is much work at the bottom of seemingly effortless work in art and encounters.
  3. ONE SHOULD LEARN AND GRASP AND PRACTICE ON TOP OF OUR BASIC PROGRAM FIRST. SUCH A METHOD IS CALLED GOOD SCHOOLING IN GENERAL. Copying a lot means ruining your nose - and such figurative things may turn into beginner's mistakes in the artistic development.
SO: At bottom of very spectacular statements or arrangements of statements, there should be no halted standard layout (design, basic scheme), for the latter leads into more ample learning through eased accommodations.
      Odd and cramped frogs at the bottom of their old ponds may never see high enough for it. Let that be their problem.

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Contributors

Not too great and contributing spirits behind these essays, it may be assumed ... Part 1
Arp, Jean Hockney, David Menzies, Robert
Murrow, R. Edward Nietzsche, Friedrich Pound, Ezra
Schiller, Friedrich von    

Part 2
Amiel, Henri-Frédéric Anderson, Lindsay Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius
Bangs, Lester Beethoven, Ludwig van Berra, Yogi
Butler, Samuel Cather, Willa Disraeli, Isaac
Dreiser, Theodore Einstein, Albert Faulkner, William
Gide, Andre Grant, Ulysses S. Ionesco, Eugene
Kennedy, John F. Matisse Picasso, Mrs. Pablo
Picasso, Pablo Voltaire  

Part 3
Antoninus, Marcus Aurelius Baldwin, James Barenboim, Daniel
Beethoven, Ludwig van Chesterton, Gilbert K. Dahlberg, Edward
Debord, Guy Emerson, Ralph Waldo Goethe, Johann von
Grass, Günther Havel, Vaclav Huxley, Aldous
James, Henry Kennedy, John F. Klee, Paul
Kramer, Hilton Lewis, Sinclair Longfellow, Henry W.
Motherwell, Robert Picabia, Francis Picasso, Pablo
Reinhardt, Ad Renard, Jules Santayana, George
Valery, Paul    

Part 4
Butler, Samuel Chesterton, Gilbert K. Connolly, Cyril
Cushman, Charlotte Saunders Dali, Salvadore Eliot, T.S.
Emerson, Ralph Waldo Gasset, Jose Ortega Y Gordimer, Nadine
Huxley, Aldous James, Henry Langer, Suzanne K.
Motherwell, Robert Picabia, Francis, Picasso, Pablo
Ruskin, John Santayana, George  

You can get crushed by dark trickery, and there is much of it around! Our aim is to steer you outside transgressions against your deeper self (marrow). How? Well, it depends, but "the good example is half the sermon". (From the German) [Sx 142] Rephrased: "The neat example crowns the sermon." That is fair.

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