Jim Ede
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Harold Stanley Ede (7 April 1895 – 15 March 1990), also known as 'Jim' Ede, was a British collector of art and friend to artists. Ede studied painting at Newlyn Art School between 1912 and 1914 .
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- It seems to me that art is a great miracle-it is the showing forth of the Holy Spirit transubstantiation.It is to find and proclaim the poetry of life,without which there is no life.
- Introduction,In Engrave Glass:David Peace,Cambridge 1973.
- The role of art is to give food for thought,to act as a stimulant,to entice the onlooker to inspect things,people,emotions,from a new point of view.
- Undated mauscript c 1941.Kettle's Yard archive,Cambridge.
- There should be a Kettle's Yard in every university.
- From Introduction to the Handlist 1970
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- I suppose there has always been a dictatorship in art,it must be this or that,but art cannot be bound in this way,for the human spirit is limitless and art is the expression of that spirit...The symbol is of no importance,the artist is everything and he must burn his impression onto the plate of civilisation.
- Artists are ahead of their time and few people are accustomed to their language,each artist speaks with a different tongue.
- For the artist shape and enveloping light may not even relate directly to others shapes,to other lights.His thought is of relationship between one human being and another,of spiritual contact,that elusive thing which is brought into existence.
