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I believe that the great painters, with their intellects as master, have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions. I find any digression from this large aim leads me to boredom. -Hopper
Art is a form of supremely delicate awareness and atonement -- meaning atoneness, the state of being at one with the object. -D.H. Lawrence Remember, we're all in this alone. - Lily Tomlin I had learned to harness ignorance with presumption. I was ready to become an unacknowledged watercolorist. -Henry Miller No passion so effectively robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear. -Edmund Burke Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent -Calvin Coolidge Sometimes I feel like I'm a piece of sculpture that's being chipped till I'm becoming myself. -Nat Youngblood I paint only because I love to cut mats. -Arthur Alexander Art is pleasure objectified. -E.A. Whitney The avoidance of pain is the cause of all non-creative work. -M. Scott Peck When Van Gogh painted a field, he did not pretend to transfer it to his canvas; he tried, through deceptive figuration whose sole criterion was the dictates of art, to incarnate on a sticky vertical surface the fullness of an immense world with its field and men, including Van Gogh. Our World. -Sartre |