Citater om art

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
If you don’t go to extremes, don’t bother to go.
Creating new knowledge involves quashing or breaking up old knowledge so as to make room for the new.
Wrecking cannot be avoided, but people are free to choose what to wreck and what not to wreck.
Beautiful, ugly, impressive, disgusting, meaningless, grim, contradictory etc … It makes no difference, as long as it is life, vigorously pouring forth.
To break and be able to grow together again in a better way: that is the difficult art.
Everything is in constant flux, from state to state, from good to bad and back again…, only in transmutation, perpetual motion, lies truth.
The great work of art is the complete banality, and the fault with most banalities is that they are not banal enough.
To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.
We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.
We cannot inherit a fixed, unmoving view of life and of art from the past generation.
This is what aesthetics, development and progress depend upon: that we go out on thin ice.
If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing our mind to pieces... It is a corpse with no symbolic power or strength.
Form and substance are one and the same. Form is the life expression and substance the living painting.
The aim of our studies is to prove that color is the most relative means of artistic expression.
Art is not so much expressing oneself, as it is discovering oneself.
Impulse alone does not make a work of art.
Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.