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Aphorisms
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No46: 'Why there are so many tables of still life in modern paintings is because they are really laboratory tables on which aesthetic problems can be isolated' Margaret Preston's 92 Aphorisms have only appeared in a rare limited edition Recent Paintings 1929. This eBook edition offers the original design, the aphorisms and ten Preston woodcuts. No53: 'A lemon can be an inspiration as well as a fruit'
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92 APHORISMS
by
MARGARET PRESTON
and OTHERS
1 An aphorism is the product of the familiar earth and smacks of the world we live in
2 An artist is something on two legs with a simple soul and a belief that be was made before God
3 That art is not imitation of nature is as old as most ills
4 One cannot teach art only point out a way for another to find it for himself
5 Don't judge a picture by its title—nude gods and goddesses are only unclothed models
6 Works of art are causes of wonder interest and admiration but a person who looks for beauty primarily in the arts cannot
[have
have loved nature and will never understand the piety of art
7 Beauty is not intrinsic in any form—it comes to make that form
8 He who uses only the sight of the eyes is acted on by what he sees, it is the intuition of the spirit that gives the assurance of certainty
9 Among men reject none; among things reject nothing. This is called comprehensive criticism
10 There are many woolly substitutes for thought
11 Painting is a personal matter; it should be judged from the point of view of the artist
12 All art whether it be good or bad is expressing the artist's personality to some degree
13 It is not possible to understand without surrender. As long as the slightest inclination to criticism remains in the consciousness it is hopeless to do justice to what is strange
14 Hardness of training ultimately makes wise even the fool
15 No one is ever too old to know better
16 Realism is the line of least resistance
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17 Art was developed before religion. The native carved the stick then worshipped it
18 Art like life is either growing or going
19 The Law of Life is of a fiendish, not of a divine kind; modern art accepts this truth
20 A drawing need not appear to be the work of an academician; it passes by rights of its own
21 Pure form is an artistic reality, it is not imitative
22 Bad art gives the feeling of satiation with fulfilment
23 The imitative artist contemplates all creative pow...
Table of contents
- Start
- Foreword
- 92 Aphorisms
- Woodcuts