“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.”
–Lucian Freud
The longer you look at an object
Tag: nature
The demand for perfection is always a misunderstanding
“The demand for perfection is always a misunderstanding of the ends of art. Imperfection is in some sort essential to all that we know of life in a mortal body, that is to say of a state of progress and change. Nothing that lives is, or can be, rigidly perfect; part of it is decaying, part nascent. The foxglove blossom-a third part bud, a third past full bloom, -is a type of the life of this world. And in all things that live there are certain irregularities and deficiencies which are not only signs of life but sources of beauty.”
-John Ruskin.
Creativity takes courage.
– Henri Matisse
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind
“Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind.” –
-Magdalena Abakanowicz
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
Ale house
one of 14 paintings that I am getting ready for this season.
in process painting by almostfinnish
No relationship is all sunshine
No relationship is all sunshine, but two people can share one umbrella and survive the storm together.
– Anonymous
The last snow fall for the season
It snowed off and on all day, today.
It was a nice surprise.
We ended up with maybe 5 inches over all
but south of us they had 8 inches.
We are definitely ready for spring here.
A few days ago was the first day of spring.
The spring equinox. March 19,2024.
When I went down to the river
to snap this picture in this photo
the geese acted like they owned the place.
They did not want me around and they were
squawking at the top of their lungs.
I left as quickly as I could.
I know they must be nesting somewhere.
We also have a couple of morning doves making a nest
right outside our window.
They don’t squawk they coo.
And they don’t mind us.
morning snow
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