Every work of art which really moves us is in some degree a revelation: it changes us. Lawren Harris More Quotes by Lawren Harris More Quotes From Lawren Harris Art is the distillate of life, the winnowed result of the experience of a people, the record of the joyous adventure of the creative spirit in us toward a higher world; a world in which all ideas, thoughts, and forms are pure and beautiful and completely clear, the world Plato held to be perfect and eternal. All works that have in them an element of joy are records of this adventure. Lawren Harris plato beautiful art I felt the strange brooding lonely presence of Nature fostering a new race, a new age, and as part of it, a new expression in Art. It was an unfolding of the heart itself through the effect of environment, of people, of place, and time. Lawren Harris future lonely art So long as painting deals with objective nature, it is an impure art, for recognizability precludes the highest aesthetic emotion. All painting, ancient or modern, moves us aesthetically only in so far as it possesses a force over and beyond its aspect. Lawren Harris nature art moving Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians? Lawren Harris pedestrians drivers turns Mind alone remains stable, and watches the chaos of phenomena, and knows that there is a plastic unity of existence - a changeless harmony - behind the everchanging. Lawren Harris unity change mind Sometimes, indeed often, we work on a theme with an unformed idea, and, when it has passed through the process, its final result is something we could never have predicted when we commenced. Lawren Harris finals sometimes ideas The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday. Lawren Harris language yesterday today Of course there must be the urge, the indefinable longing to get something through into terms of plastic presentation, but results are nearly always unpredictable. Lawren Harris plastic longing desire It requires a conviction that every people has a unique contribution to give to mankind, and that this they must make or remain sterile, subservient, sallow, and that this contribution they must have commenced to make before they can hope to understand the spirit that informs all great works and inspires all noble living. Lawren Harris unique giving people Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout. Lawren Harris creative decision art
