Meyer Schapiro Quotes & Sayings

Nature and abstract forms are both materials for art, and the choice of one or the other flows from historically changing interests. — Meyer Schapiro

The movement of abstract art ... bears within itself at almost every point the mark of the changing material and psychological conditions surrounding modern culture. — Meyer Schapiro

Style is, above all, a system of forms with a quality and a meaningful expression through which the personality of the artist andthe broad outlook of a group are visible, ... communicating and fixing certain values of religious, social, and moral life through the emotional suggestiveness of forms. It is, besides, a common ground against which innovations and individuality of particular works may be measured. — Meyer Schapiro