ABstract Intuition
Abstract intuition
What does "abstract intuition" mean?
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As visual and literary artists we all understand the indescribable connection to living that cannot be expressed in any form but art. This abstract quality is rooted in the instinctive urge to create. The art that blossoms from instinct is the tangible form of an artist's abstract intuition. What blossoms from your abstract intuition? What will you share?
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Founders
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Elle Lewis (right) and Bella Jacobs (left) share a love of art and writing. The two developed a deep friendship after they realized they were both secretly reading The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky under their desks in math class in seventh grade. Ever since, Elle and Bella have pursued creative writing and visual arts. Feeding off of each other's creativity, the art loving bibliophiles. They decided that an inclusive, open forum could impact their peers the way they had impacted each other, so that everyone can create collaboratively-- not in isolation.
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Art and writing quotes we love
“Language freed the mind from the animal to be creative, thence to enter and imagine other worlds infinite in time and space”
-Edward O. Wilson
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“The chief enemy of creativity is ‘good’ sense.”
-Pablo Picasso
“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success.”
-Henri Matisse
“All art is a kind of confession, more or less oblique. All artists, if they are to survive, are forced, at last, to tell the whole story; to vomit the anguish up.”
-James Baldwin
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
-Jerzy Kosinski
“Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.”
- Anton Chekhov
“You don’t take a photograph, you make it.”
-Ansel Adams
“Art lives from constraints and dies from freedom.”
-Leonardo da Vinci
“To be an artist is to believe in life.”
-Henry Moore
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"Unhappy nations make great artists"
-French proverb