NOTEABLE QUOTES

TOM WOLFE
Author, Journalist
Rick is—and I do not say this lightly—America’s greatest sculptor

JAMES COOPER
Founding Director of the Newington-Cropsey Cultural Studies Center
Editor of The American Arts Quarterly
Author
Hart’s work is about Transcendence and Renewal…At certain moments in history, one encounters a work that possesses the aesthetic contextual and moral strength to signal the start of a new era. The Creation work is such a work…. It has the tender power of a Michelangelo.

MICHAEL JOHN NOVAK JR.
Philosopher, Author, Theologian
The work of Frederick Hart is changing the World of Art

ROBERT CHASE
Frederick Hart Publisher
President and Founder of the Frederick Hart Foundatio
Although artists have been casting bronze and other metals since antiquity, no legacy of casting clear acrylic resin existed when Hart first determined to master this new medium.

FREDERICK TURNER
Former Founders Professor of Arts and Humanities , University of Texas, Dallas.
Former Editor of Kenyon Review
Author, Poet
Ex Nihilo is a triumphant recovery, out of the abstraction of the twentieth century, of the poetic powers of sculpture.

J. CARTER BROWN
Director Emeritus National Gallery of Art
Although he has stated that innovation is not s priority for him, his pioneering use of Lucite® including a process that he has patented, is evidence that he is not an artist enslaved by the past. I find the Lucite® work of particular interest.

DONALD KUSPIT
Professor, Author, Art Historian
It is good to be inspired by art for a change, rather than look at art that betrays humanity…Hart’s restoration of the human figure, in all its wholeness and vulnerability…is an important moment in the aesthetic and social history of art.

POPE JOHN PAUL II
This work (The Cross of the Millennium) represents a profound theological statement for our day.

DONALD MARTIN REYNOLDS
Professor, Author, Art Historian
These figures (The Creation Sculptures) represent a turning point in American art, reintroducing the mystery, beauty, and sense of moral purpose that characterized the great figurative art of the past.

In Memory of Frederick Hart

How shall his great hills be fitly seen?
What eye but his could measure out their limbs,
His lakes with tall clouds imaged in their brims?
How shall his great hills be fitly seen?

Who’ll show our time its body and its face?
Master and maker, you gave us again
The brilliance of the angel and the pain:
Who’ll show our time its body and its face?

And what of those who’ve lost his powerful hand?
This was a friend that we were proud to own,
Noble and simple, and as deep as stone;
And what of those who’ve lost his powerful hand?

Let it so be that he has left his heart,
In art more cleansing to the eye than tears,
To the next hundred, and the next thousand years
Let it so be that he has left his heart,

Frederick Turner