
Mirrors and Windows
Recently, because of something I wrote to a friend, I’ve been thinking about John Szarkowski‘s idea of photographs as either windows or mirrors. It’s interesting […]
Recently, because of something I wrote to a friend, I’ve been thinking about John Szarkowski‘s idea of photographs as either windows or mirrors. It’s interesting […]
Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that […]
“The real study of an art student is more of a development of that sensitive nature and appreciative imagination with which he was so fully […]
Quotes from The Art Spirit, by Robert Henri: “The work of the art student is no light matter. Few have the courage and stamina to […]
“Every student should put down in some form or other his findings. All any man can hope to do is to add his fragment to […]
“Artists are sometimes asked, “Why do you paint ugly and not beautiful things?” The questioner rarely hesitates in his judgment of what is beautiful and […]
“I know I have said a lot when I say, “You can do anything you want to do.” But I mean it. There is reason […]
“One of the great difficulties of an art student is to decide between his own natural impressions and what he thinks should be his impressions. […]
“There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual — become clairvoyant. We reach […]
“The appreciation of art should not be considered as merely a pleasurable pastime. To apprehend beauty is to work for it. It is a mighty […]
© Paul Politis