The creative process
Tag: painting
As my deadline loomed
I just got an unexpected extension granted to me by the gallery offering me a temporary reprieve from the stress of completing all paintings today.
Note# No real rush if it needs to be later.
Sweet.
It’s called best laid plans.
The idiom “the best-laid plans” conveys the inevitability of unpredicted problems or changes disrupting even the most carefully organized plans or projects. If you reference “the best laid plans,” you’re acknowledging that, despite meticulous planning, things might not proceed as expected.
Sunsets, like childhood, are viewed with wonder
not just because they are beautiful but because they are fleeting.
– Richard Paul Evans
Difficult roads often lead to
beautiful destinations.
Photo by almostfinnish
I have one week to finish all my paintings.
The struggle is not difficult but it’s never ending.
Soon this power struggle will be over.
and then I can rest.
More adventure, less worry
“If people think that nature is their friend
then they sure don’t need an enemy.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
photo by almostfinnish
The longer you look at an object
“The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.”
–Lucian Freud
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
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