plastic arts Quotes

The new painters do not propose, any more than did their predecessors, to be geometers. But it may be said that geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer. Today, scholars no longer limit themselves to the three dimensions of Euclid. The painters have been lead quite naturally, one might say by intuition, to preoccupy themselves with the new possibilities of spatial measurement which, in the language of the modern studios, are designated by the term fourth dimension.

First of all, the art of living; then as my ideal profession, poetry and philosophy, and as my real profession, plastic arts; in the last resort, for lack of income, illustrations.

Drawing is the cornerstone of the graphic, plastic arts. Drawing is the coordination of line, tone, and color symbols into formations that express the artist's thought.

The essence of painting has actually always been to make it [the universal] plastically perceptible through colour and line.

All painting - the painting of the past as well as of the present - shows us that its essential plastic means were only line and color.

I used to draw and make plastic figurines and watch 'Wallace and Gromit' films.

Geometry is to the plastic arts what grammar is to the art of the writer.

There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them.

By the unification of architecture, sculpture and painting a new plastic reality will be created.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

The cinema, as literature, as all the plastic arts, do not exist outside of a critical system that allows us to study them.

These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a god- like ease and power.

Broadcasting is plastic; while it can ape the press, it can also emulate the arts.

To experience visually, and to transform our visual experience into plastic terms, requires the faculty of empathy.