Dore Ashton famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Raymond Hendler exhibited a group of abstract paintings that displayed rare high spirits. Using a great deal of fresh white, Hendler devised extremely simple symbols which he dispersed felicitously on his shining grounds. These bright, often linear hieroglyphs serve both as pictorial animators-they often flow in winding patterns or like fluent handwriting-and as references to the plentitude of the artist's existence. Gardens and sky and human joy are read in these exceedingly compressed forms.
-- Dore Ashton

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It has always been difficult for historians to fully grasp the intelligence of painters.
-- Dore Ashton

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art itself shuns commonality: while the scientist may seek the phenomenon that repeats itself, the artist seeks the exception.
-- Dore Ashton

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I want to be a real artist to consumers. I want to be the real thing for them.
Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
In theory, cars are fairly simple. If they don't start, it's either the fuel system or the electrical system. Teach yourself about the path of each in your engine and tracing it is fairly straightforward. But at the beginning, mastering each new system seems like an unreachable shore. The car is effectively a black box.
In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that ... I might be master at last of a small house and a large garden, with very moderate conveniences joined to them, and there dedicate the remainder of my life to the culture of them and the study of nature.
The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land.
Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes!
Fertility of the soil is the future of civilization.

Dore Ashton famous quotes

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