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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it --just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore. (Coyote Peter)
Abstract Art: A product of the untalented, sold by the unprincipled to the utterly bewildered. (Coyote Peter)
Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art. (Coyote Peter)
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other. (Coyote Peter)
Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers. (Coyote Peter)
Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness. The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is. (Coyote Peter)
With an apple I will astonish Paris. (Coyote Peter)
When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art. (Coyote Peter)
The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture. (Coyote Peter)
The artistic temperament is a disease that affects amateurs. Artists of a large and wholesome vitality get rid of their art easily, as they breathe easily or perspire easily. But in artists of less force, the thing becomes a pressure, and produces a definite pain, which is called the artistic temperament. (Coyote Peter)
Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere. (Coyote Peter)
Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame. (Coyote Peter)
The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. (Coyote Peter)
Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse. (Coyote Peter)
Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea. (Coyote Peter)
Art is science made clear. (Coyote Peter)
One must be a living man and a posthumous artist. (Coyote Peter)
The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication: that is why so many bad artists are unable to give it up. (Coyote Peter)
The artist is a member of the leisured classes who cannot pay for his leisure. (Coyote Peter)
An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation. (Coyote Peter)
Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line. (Coyote Peter)
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