If I call it art, it’s art

Humans are very proportionate, if you are on the square, you're honest or sincere, an idea that turns up in other idioms, such as square deal.

This is not a step backward, it is a failure to make a step forward. If you want to become truly excellent you need a reasonably high tolerance for being terrible.

Fragility of art opposing pair of figurativeness vs. abstraction. Landscape paintings tapped optimistic memories.

what makes bad art

A figure of drawing with life model posing as a funny sentence.

One thing bugs me about this, because philosophy, like tight-rope walking and print making, is a dangerous business.

Alan Hajek

Works of art signal the possibility of the non-existent; their reality testifies to the feasibility of the unreal, the possible: the wise man sits on the hole in his Sierpinsky carpet.

famous contemporary drawings

Images of shades of life for the deep psychological need they fill, willing to capture the sense of a fleeting moment in time.

He who doesn't work makes no mistakes, it was a mystery whose solution lay in ludicrous art

People value you for your usefulness, regardless of your worth. His entire conversation highlighted how much importance he placed on achievement. No images are harder to see for what they are than great works that have been shrunk on to postcards.

Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of Reason.

Benjamin Franklin

balance between composition and turmoil

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs (Ansel Adams).

It was a mystery whose solution lay in art and a mythology that nobody could understand, it contained speculations too remote from reality to be of interest to the reader. It's academic has earned the title of being irrelevant, out of touch with reality, and ivory tower in application. Need to move beyond single variant paradigm.

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