6 Quotes by Neville Weston

[Kandinsky] arrived, as they say, 'with snow on his boots', and it never really melted.

The typical English painting is narrative in character. The English are a nation of diarists.

Art and life are seen to be rich and mutually enriching

Impressionism was not just a style of painting, it was a new attitude to art and life; it is this attitude that marks the beginning of modern art.

Such ideas made him [Constable] a precursor of the essentially twentieth-century view that art and life are inseparable and there is no such thing as ideal subject-matter.

The autonomy of art that emerged through Post-Impressionism, Cubism, Mondrian, and the Russian Constructivism had seen painting develop independent of imitations or decoration, and so the content of art became much closer to that of music.