Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expre… - Arthur Wesley Dow

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Art is the most valued thing in the world...it is the expression of the highest form of human energy,the creative power nearest to the divine.The power is within - the question is how to reach it.

Arthur Wesley Dow

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About Arthur Wesley Dow

Arthur Wesley Dow (April 6, 1857 – December 1, 1922) was an American painter, printmaker, photographer, and influential arts educator. His ideas were quite revolutionary for the period, he taught that rather than copying nature, art should be created by elements of the composition, like line, mass and color.

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Alternative Names: Arthur W. Dow • Arthur Dow • A. W. Dow

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..art lies in the fine choice. The artist does not teach us to see facts: he teaches us to feel harmonies.

Great art should come from the harmony of two lines.

Painting, which is essentially a rhythmic harmony of coloured spaces.

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