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The quiet time that I spend in my studio allows me the opportunity to contemplate the poetic essence of a subject. (Peter Adams)
Observe and contemplate on the hidden things of life: how a man's seed is but the beginning, it takes others to bring it to fruition. Think how food undergoes such changes to produce health and strength. See the power of these hidden things which, like the wind cannot been seen, but its effects can be. (Marcus Aurelius)
There is no contemplation without art. (Vittorio Canta)
Contemplation is the root of awareness and creativity. (Sandra Chantry)
The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman. (Ananda Coomaraswamy)
In contemplation of ruins, one contemplates one's future, the fragility of the present, and the futility of the past. (Alexander Creswell)
When the doing is hard, there is more contemplation. When the doing is too hard, very little work is actually produced. When the doing is too easy then there can be much work but there may not be enough thought put into it. (William M. Dupree)
I have to stay alone in order to fully contemplate and feel nature. (Caspar David Friedrich)
I believe that one thinks much more soundly if the thoughts arise from direct contact with things, than if one looks at things with the aim of finding this or that in them. (Vincent van Gogh)
Realism and Naturalism rely mostly on the eye of the flesh. Abstract, conceptual and surrealistic art rely mostly on the eye of the mind. Great works of art rely on the eye of contemplation, the eye of the spirit. (Alex Grey)
There is no art without contemplation. (Robert Henri)
Painting is a means by which certain great people in the past have attained to a maximum of being and self-awareness, and we can increase our own reality by the contemplation of their works. (Francis Hoyland)
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. (Elizabeth Janeway)
True art is made noble and religious by the mind producing it. (Michelangelo)
Never trust a thought that didn't come by walking. (Friedrich Nietzsche)
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical. (Plotinus)
That which is not worth contemplating in life, is not worth recreating in art. (Ayn Rand)
Works of art must persist as objects of contemplation. (Herbert Read)
I can recommend nothing better... than that you endeavor to infuse into your works what you learn from the contemplation of the works of others. (Sir Joshua Reynolds)
Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and there defines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated. (Auguste Rodin)
I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect. (Mark Twain)
The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. (Simone Weil)
I benefit from contemplation, but it's a great antidote to that, having someone interesting come into the studio environment to be painted, so that I can experience a little bit of their world. (Stuart Pearson Wright)
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