April 2012
32 posts
“My drawing instructor in high school lectured and demonstrated continuously to “draw only what you can see” so that if you were at a loss for words, something could be explained and even more importantly, not misunderstood. Rather than fantasize, be real and draw it only if it is in front of you and if it’s not there, put it there and by making the lines connect, we can vaguely get at something other than the world we know.”
—Bob Dylan
WikiPaintings - Encyclopedia of Fine Arts →
wikipaintings.org
The project aims to create high-quality, most complete and well-structured online repository of fine art. We hope to make classical art a little more accessible and comprehensible, and also want to provide a new form of interaction between contemporary artists and their audience. In the future we plan to cover the entire history of art — from cave artworks to the new talents of today.
“Abstract art is an effort to close the void that modern men feel.”
—Robert Motherwell
“Sometimes images may emerge from some chord in my subconscious, the way a dream might. Even in those paintings where an image unconsciously develops, a certain kind of experience is usually necessary in order to perceive it.”
—Robert Motherwell
“Design is only design if it communicates knowledge.”
—Enzo Mari
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
—Albert Einstein
Keith Haring's Journals →
keithharing.tumblr.com
The Keith Haring Foundation scanned Keith’s journals from 1979 to 1989. A page from his journals is posted each day.
March 2012
24 posts
“People who are not artists often feel that artists are inspired. But if you work at your art you don’t have time to be inspired.”
—John Cage
