“A picture is a secret about a secret, the more it tells you the less you know.”
~ Diane Arbus
“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious
– the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of
true art and science.”
~ Albert Einstein
………….
https://youtu.be/CWzrABouyeE?list=PLHa9wbMOuHODfJtJHhLTuxn6LHx834WZr
Louis Armstrong – What a wonderful world ( 1967 )
“The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.”
~Jean-Jacques Rousseau
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.”
~Leonardo da Vinci
(above work by Stephen McCandless, artist working in the Pacific Northwest)
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire,
you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
~ George Bernard Shaw
“An artist’s only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms,
not anyone else’s.”
~J.D. Salinger
“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”
~Leonardo da Vinci
Olga Ermakova is a 26 year-old artist and designer who works primarily in oil painting and has been inclined toward the arts since childhood. She’s a graduate of Belgorod State University, Russia. Olga can send her work to you as a postcard.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/RussianArtist
“Every creator painfully
experiences the chasm
between his inner vision
and its ultimate expression.”
~Isaac Bashevis Singer
“The main thing is to be moved, to love, to hope, to tremble, to live.”
~Auguste Rodin
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.”
~Oscar Wilde
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”
~Pablo Picasso
“This is the only real concern of the artist, to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art.”
~ James Baldwin
“ Creativity takes courage.”
~Henri Matisse “
“Art evokes the mystery without which the world
would not exist.”
~Rene Magritte
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.”
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
“The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.”
~Francis Bacon
“I dream of painting and then I paint my dream.”
~Vincent Van Gogh
“Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life’s coming attractions.”
~Albert Einstein
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world,
I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.”
~ Émile Zola
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
~Anton Chekhov
~OO~
“I found I could
say things with color
and shapes that I couldn’t
say any other way
-things I had no words for.”
Georgia O’Keeffe
Mission creep:
https://thewordsmithcollection.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/eight-wars-of-aggression/
The Wordsmith Collection: Writing & Creative Arts
“The role of the artist is to ask questions, not answer them.”
~Anton Chekhov
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