

Ward's drawings come from the book 'Robin Ward's Vancouver' published by Harbour Publishing © 1990 by Robin Ward
All rights reserved, Do not copy without permission from copyright owner.
Published here for scholarly review.


The artist is the creator of beautiful things.
To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.
The highest as the lowest form of criticism is a mode of autobiography. Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming.
This is a fault.
Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.
They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved.
No artist has ethical sympathies.
An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style. No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril.
It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.
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While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first is personality, which no one should copy; the second is perfection, which all should aim at .
Oscar Wilde.
I prefer drawing to talking. Drawing is faster, and allows less room for lies.
Le Corbusier.
"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral--immoral from the scientific point of view."
"Why?"
"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtues are not real to him. His sins, if there are such things as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of some one else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly--that is what each of us is here for.
People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are charitable. They feed the hungry and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked. Courage has gone out of our race. Perhaps we never really had it.
The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion--these are the two things that govern us. And yet I believe that if one man were to live out his life fully and completely, were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream -- I believe that the world would gain such a fresh impulse of joy that we would forget all the maladies of mediaevalism, and return to the Hellenic ideal-- to something finer, richer than the Hellenic ideal, it may be."
Oscar Wilde.
16 comments:
Great art!Remind me layout for backgrounds and L.Premazzi.
Not enough traffic nor grime, leftovers of fast food or homeless people in the London pictures
Very inspirational... I'm in art heaven and it's a blog called Process Junkie.
ah man, waaaaaay too good to be healthy
Hi LOVE your blog. I used to work in a book store in Vancouver and we sold this book. Just digging your stuff!
I look forward to your music playlist, thanks! Makes my world.
Cheers,
candy
http://gnosticminx.blogspot.com/
Ward's books can still be purchased online at Harbour Publishing's website, I highly recommend them.
Candy: I updated the radioblog playlist yesterday, let me know if it's to your liking.
A. Riabovitchev True, I'm sure our friend Stephane Kardos would like these.
Oscar: It was a kinder, gentler time ;P
Urbanbarbarella: I had the feeling you would like them.
Thanks for posting these images Alberto, I can see why you admire them as artists, these images are truly stunning.
Jeez!..I just realised they are pictures of Vancouver..I thought they where of London!!! Sorry.
No, you are correct! the last 4 drawings from Ward are of downtown Vancouver, the rest are of London and surrounding areas in the UK.
Amazing, incredible drawings...I like the tightness, yet looseness at the same time! (Like what they used to say about Zeppelin - Tight But Loose!)
Really loving the playlist. No kidding, I have it here on my desktop everyday, and just listen to it as a music source. So easy. Love the punk, but also if I made a mood of playlist it would bounce around like yours does.
Candy
http://gnosticminx.blogspot.com/
those are great sketches man...
thanks for sharing your drawings from obsevation,
it's always good to see that kind of stuff..
Hey Candymix the back of your building looks familiar, do you live in NY?
The playlists are a reflection of my art and my life, all over the place but there's an invisible 'structure', a common aesthetic element that unifies everything, the way I see it, all of those things belong together even though they bounce around with their own unique character. See, I too have artsy-fartsy pretensions :)
I'm glad you like the music.
Justin & Bruno: Thanks, guys. Bruno, those are not my drawings.
those drawings are out of this world by the way. loving my fellow scots work. very inspiring stuff
Indeed, klingatron!
Que pedazo de bestia, impresionante.
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