to find the marvellous
– Bill Moyers
Creativity is piercing the mundane
Tag: artist palette
Trickery and premeditation
“The creation of a painting takes as much trickery and premeditation as the commitment of a crime.”
– Edgar Degas
Where you can buy cheap turpentine
“When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.”
– Pablo Picasso
Art is a lie that makes us realize the truth
-Pablo Picasso
Practice what you know
Practice what you know and it will help
you to make what you do not know.
-Rembrandt
Ale house
one of 14 paintings that I am getting ready for this season.
in process painting by almostfinnish
I’m going to make the rest of my life
the best of my life
Forget being realistic.
Success takes delusion. Act like it’s going to happen. Believe it’s already yours. You are the main character. you can make life the reality you want it to be.
What’s the aim of the artist?
The aim of art is not to represent the outward appearance of things
but their inward significance.
-Aristotle
What do bananas say when they answer the phone?
“Yellow?”
Drawing at its best is not what your eye sees but what your mind understands.
Millard Sheets
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