Fixed Centre Art

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"The producers and promoters of modern art form a veritable mafia that is made up of an international network of art galleries, museums, universities, critics and auction houses. Governments at the national and provincial levels also support this genre by subsidizing artists and related exhibitions, thus contributing to the distortion and imbalance of the masses. Art should elevate people's feelings, arousing in them…

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'In a world where manufactured products and middlemen's service's were new economic notions, the artist often had to go at his task literally from the ground up. Cennini recalled that as a lad he prowled the Tuscan hills looking for natural pigments in the earth, and that at “a very steep place, scraping the steep with a spade, I beheld seams of many kinds of colour – ocher, dark and light sinoper, blue and white.” I…

“The ingredients of a work of art are both intangible and tangible. Into its making go such elusive elements as the artist's innate talent and inner vision – and also such mundane materials as pigments and glues and varnishes. In every generation the artist has had to harmonize the aesthetic act of painting with the physical act. But vital differences set apart the painters of Giotto's time from those of today. The a…

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“I alone take all things out of their sense and make them one in me” - Meister Eckhart “And this is precisely what the artist does, whose first gesture is an interior and contemplative act in which the intellect envisages the thing not as the senses know it, nor with respect to its value, but as an intelligible form or species; the likeness of which he afterwards proceeds to embody in the material” - Ananda Coomaras…

“Individual expression, the trace of good or evil passions, is the same thing as characteristic expression; the psychological novel or painting is concerned with 'character' in this sense, the epic only with types of character. What affects us in monumental art, whatever its immediate subject, is nothing particular or individual, but only the power of a numinous presence. The facts of medieval art agree with this the…

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“At the break-up of the medieval system two great disruptions were acting and inter-acting – the Reformation and the Renaissance. At the beginning of the fifteenth century the class of persons now called artists did not exist, nor was there such a thing as an architect's profession. There were simply various grades of workmen, skilled and less skilled, well know and honoured, or unknown and unhonoured. But the presen…

"The Leisure State is founded upon a false angelism, a false notion of the fitness of men to enjoy themselves without the direct responsibility of each one to earn his own living and that of his wife and children by his own work [. . .] It is the notion that matter is essentially evil and therefore work is essentially degrading. [. . .] that is the basis of our Leisure State - the release of man from his entanglement…

"The abnormality of our time, that which makes it contrary to nature, is its deliberate and stated determination to make the working life of men & the product of their working hours mechanically perfect, and to relegate all the humanities, all that is of its nature humane, to their spare time, to the time when they are not at work." - Eric Gill