For the arts epitomize, intensify and clarify the experience of beauty for us as nothing else can. 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 platobeautifulart 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 futurelonelyart 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 natureartmoving Are we taking the drunken drivers off the road only to turn them into drunken pedestrians? Lawren Harris pedestriansdriversturns 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 unitychangemind 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 finalssometimesideas The thought of today cannot be expressed in the language of yesterday. Lawren Harris languageyesterdaytoday 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 plasticlongingdesire 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 uniquegivingpeople 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 creativedecisionart
