Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
To float like a cloud you have to go to the trouble of becoming one.
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
No matter what your disciplines, you need your own personal lists.
An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.
I find that as I get into a painting I have high hopes, then little by little I begin to see that it is not going to be the masterpiece I thought it would be, and I start putting my hopes into the next work.
Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.
Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.
While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.
So who are we going to blame for our disappointments and our failures?
In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.
Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative patterns. While "ready-mades" do show up from time to time, they are rare. Art need not be what is seen-but what is to be seen. "Nature," said James McNeill Whistler, "is usually wrong."
God may work in light, but we mortals work in pigment.
We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
Quality is always in style.
A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.
No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
While obsessive behavior may be an antisocial plague to societies and communities at large, it's total moxie when lone practitioners catch it.
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.
The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.
An early flourish of confidence is useful. Then there's the small crudities - the slubs and bumps that come with outdoor work - the odd charm of imprecision.
No one would have the courage to walk up to a writer and ask to look at the last few pages of his manuscript, but they feel perfectly comfortable staring over an artist's shoulder while he is trying to paint.
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