Fionn led a discussion on ‘What Qualifies as Art?’ at the U3A Cambridge Arts Forum yesterday. I was reminded of a few thoughts about art I had come across recently.
‘For an artwork to succeed it must go deeper than a mere visual record.’ Frances Spalding, The Real and the Romantic (2022).
Artists are ‘…dreamers for whom art has remained a faith and not a profession…’, Henry Murger quoted by James Hall, The Artist’s Studio (2022).
‘I wanted to bring about some fresh way of seeing…’, Bridget Riley; and ‘Art was the creative business of how humans interpret and engage with life, [Hamish] Fulton came to believe.’; both from Lily Le Brun, Looking to Sea (2022).
‘It’s making you think about something. A photo that just shows something in pretty uninteresting. Frank Horvat (source unrecorded)