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MAGICAL THINKING: WHAT IS ART?

1/5/2012

 
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_Magical Thinking: What is Art?

        Magic is taken for granted. Not card trick magic, or Houdini escape magic, or making an elephant disappear magic, but love and friendship magic, dawn and sunset magic, music magic, and the magic of art. Most of  us enjoy one or another art and leave it at that. But some, including many artists, ponder, and try to define art. Some of the definitions are magical in themselves.      

        The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.  Aristotle                
        Art is a lie that makes us realize truth. Pablo Picasso
       Art is a kind of illness.  Giacomo Puccini                 
       Art is the triumph over chaos. John Cheever
        Art disturbs, science reassures. Georges Braque
        Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.  Twyla Tharp
       A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Oscar Wilde
       Fantasy united with art is the origin of marvels. Francisco de Goya
        Art is a selective re-creation of reality. Marcel Proust
        Art is Man's nature.  Nature is God's art.  James Bailey        
       Art is a collaboration between God and the artist,  and the less the artist does the better. André Gide
        The most important function of art and science is to awaken religious feeling. Albert Einstein
        Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.  Theodore Dreiser
        Art is an intimate exchange between two sensibilities that can be unconnected in either time or space. Stuart Hodes
    Ads are the cave art of the twentieth century. Marshall McLuhan
    What is not art? Anonymous.



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rs
1/5/2012 10:52:25 pm

terrific and informative.
thanks stu


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    Being 90 years in this world,  with great kids,  great grandkids, great wives (two, one at a time) and great memories, I wonder why some people seem to have stopped loving the U.S.A.? I will wonder in print right here. If you wonder too, or can provide some answers, please comment.
                                   Stuart Hodes

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           With my friend, Nero.
                   April, 2012.
        Photo by Ray Madrigal

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