Art Notes

Roger Fry

Imaginative Life - The opposite of “actual life” where we are free of fears to focus upon
the perceptive and emotional aspects of the experience, which gives us a different set of
values.

Actual Life - in this the process of natural selection have brought it about that the
instinctive reaction such as flight from danger. From this man bends his whole conscious
endeavors.

Art & Morality - Morality appreciates emotion by the standard of the resultant action.
Art appreciates emotion in and for itself

Emotional elements of design vs. likeness to nature - We may dispense for once and for
all the idea of likeness to nature, of correctness and incorrectness as a test, and consider
only whether the emotional elements inherent in natural form are adequately discovered,
unless, indeed, the emotional idea depends at any point upon likeness, or completeness of
representation.

DE CHIRICO

Presentiment - a sensation passed onto us from pre-historic ...