Quotes by Lawren Harris

Lawren Harris

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

Art

Creative

Decision

And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself – /All gold and white and light.

Light

Running

White

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Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

Art

Life

Long

Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul’s growth, to its unfoldment.

Art

Men

Soul

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

Art

Eternal Life

Vision

Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure.

Art

Beautiful

Plato

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

Adventure

Art

Risk

Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

Beauty

Games

Men

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

Art

Degrees

Moving

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Adventure

Art

Artist

Beautiful

Beauty

Challenges

Change

Character

Children

Country

Courage

Creative

Decision

Degrees

Demand

Desire

Doors

Drivers

Eternal Life

Eye

Finals

Future

Games

Giving

Ideas

Innocence

Language

Life

Light

Lonely

Long

Longing

Men

Methodology

Mind

Moving

Nature

Pedestrians

People

Perfect

Plastic

Plato

Real

Reflection

Risk

Running

Sky

Sometimes

Soul

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Quotes by Lawren Harris

Lawren Harris

Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout.

And light has no weight, / Yet one is lifted on its flood, /Swept high, /Running up white-golden light-shafts, /As if one were as weightless as light itself – /All gold and white and light.

Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians?

Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

Art is not an amusement, nor a distraction, nor is it, as many men maintain, an escape from life. On the contrary, it is a high training of the soul, essential to the soul’s growth, to its unfoldment.

Art is the beginning of vision into the realm of eternal life.

Art must take to the road and risk all for the glory of adventure.

Beauty is a living abiding presence completely untouchable by all the devices of man, such as moral codes, creeds, intellectual analysis, games and cliches, the acquisitive instinct, or lust for anything whatsoever.

Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us.

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