In life and art we need to make sure that we honour that which our hearts and brains tell us is good. And we should cast a philosophic yet curious smile at that which our hearts and brains tell us otherwise.
You're right, super-realism is back in style.
Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.
Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.
Flowers are an education in a vase.
A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.
Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.
Objects are held by the backgrounds that are cut into them.
Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.
We artists stick ourselves out. This in itself deserves respect.
Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.
By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.
Dealer goodwill and friendship are keys to thrival.
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.
An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.
Well considered abandonment is a trusted teacher.
A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.
Regarding ego force, we don't always like people who have it. If you have it, and need to be liked, you ought to consider letting most of it come out the end of your brush.
A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.
I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.
Where there are few expectations, expediency wins.
With cropping, a new integrity appears and winning abstractions flutter up like butterflies. You can afford to be critical, discriminating, innocent, open-minded, charmed, beguiled or bamboozled.
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