Willem de Kooning on art

“The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves. When a man ploughs his field at the right time, it means just that……insofar as we understand the universe – if it can be understood – our doings must have some desire for order in them; but from the point of view of the universe, they must be very grotesque.” ~ Willem de Kooning, from,’The Renaissance and order’, 1950

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Darby Bannard on art

“The power of art is not in communication but effect; what it does, not what it relates.” ~ Darby Bannard

Hans Hofmann on art

“The aim of art, so far as one can speak of an aim at all, has always been the same, the blending of experience gained in life with the natural qualities of the art medium.” ~ Hans Hofmann