“Creativity takes courage. ” ― Henri Matisse “Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.” ― Pablo Picasso “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” ― Erich Fromm “For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception […]
The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. Aristotle Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known. Oscar Wilde Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. Thomas Merton […]
If a painting of a tree was only the exact representation of the original, so that it looked just like the tree, there would be no reason for making it; we might as well look at the tree itself. But the painting, if it is of the right […]
Art is not what you see but what you make others see. -Edgar Degas
Artists can color the sky red because they know it’s blue. Those of us who aren’t artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we’re stupid. Jules Pfeiffer Look, it’s my misery that I have to paint this kind of painting, it’s your […]
Too many non-painting tasks this morning. I’m usually at the easel by lunchtime, but not today. It’s something we all have to figure out- how to get everything done and still have time to do what we want and need to do, which is to make art. So, […]
IN OUR OWN BACKYARD Last night my husband and I were sitting in our spa at dusk and what should we see ambling along the edge of one of the flower borders but a mom skunk with one baby. Niki the collie, who got thoroughly skunked a month […]
