Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Hungarian artist Gyorgy Kepes.
Last updated on December 21, 2024.
György Kepes [ˈɟøɾɟ ˈkɛpɛʃ] was a Hungarian-born painter, photographer, designer, educator, and art theorist. After immigrating to the U.S. in 1937, he taught design at the New Bauhaus in Chicago. In 1967 he founded the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he taught until his retirement in 1974.
The really great visual experience today is to fly over a huge city and look down into the night. It's like a tremendous jubilant Christmas tree. You just feel life is worth living when you come down you may have some doubts.
The most convincing artistic forms of our time are inner models of structural vitality and social relevance. They give us confidence that in spite of everything there is still quality to life.
Optical units close to each other on a picture plane tend to be seen together and, consequently, one can stabilize them in coherent figures.
Creative activity is not a superimposed, extraneous task against which the body, or brain protests, but an orchestration of ... joyful doing.
Our human nature is profoundly phototropic. Men obey their deepest instincts when they hold fast to light.