Read the quotes below.
Choose one or more of the quotes that you feel most closely represent(s) your attitude, approach, evaluation, and interaction with art. In essay format, explain why you chose the quote or quotes that you did, and how each one illustrates your feelings about art.
Your answer should be at least one word-processed (double-spaced, size 12 font) page in length, and you should include at least three specific examples of art to illustrate and support your argument.
Art is an effort to create, beside the real world, a more human world.
–Andre Maurois
Art should be above reality, otherwise it would have no value for man.
–Piet Mondrian
In revealing myself through art, it is my purpose to reveal people to themselves. An artist must see and feel and understand as opposed to those who merely glimpse but do not really see.
–Arshile Gorky
My first idea for a sculpture came some years ago as I was riding in from the airport. I thought: how nice it would be to have a large rabbit about the size of a skyscraper in midtown. It would cheer people up seeing its ears from the suburbs.
–Claes Oldenburg
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth.
–Pablo Picasso
I haven’t had any art education. Well, maybe in the fifth grade. The teacher said, “One flower.”
I bent it. She hit me on the hand with the ruler and said, “Straight, straight.” I tore it up. Maybe that’s when I first became an artist.
–John Serl
If my husband would ever meet a woman on the street who looked like the women in his paintings, he would fall over in a dead faint.
–Picasso’s wife
