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“It is all very well to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what one no longer sees except in memory. A transformation is...

“Art is the activity by which a person, having experienced an emotion, intentionally transmits it to others” – Leo Tolstoy I was recently...

“There is no ‘must’ in art, because art is free.”  Wassily Kandinsky A book advertisement came into my inbox today, for a book called:...

“Painting is manual labor, no different from any other; it can be done well or poorly.”           George Grosz View From My Window as I...

“Being an artist means that you can imagine yourself into all kinds of otherness-es.  Doing that, you can re arrange perspective on...

“I felt so insufficiently equipped, so weak, and at the same time it seemed to me that my reflections on art were correct.  I quarreled...

“Success doesn’t come from painting one picture.  It results from taking a certain definite line of action”.                Georgia...

The minute I sat in front of a canvas, I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do as I liked in it.”   Alice Neel Reverence     ...

“Art is never finished, only abandoned.”                                                                 Leonardo da Vinci Starting a...

“Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a different function.  The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second...

“The minute I sat in front of a canvas, I was happy.  Because it was a world, and I could do as I liked”.  Alice Neel Sundown at Sea     ...

“To be an artist is to believe in life.”                     Henry Moore We have been discussing what inspires us to create, and I have...

“I am my own muse. The subject I know best”.                                                                    Frida Kahlo According to...

“The notion that a painter suddenly imagines a composition expressive of his feelings and straightaway puts it down is untrue.  He begins...

“The artist begins with a vision-a creative operation requires effort.  Creativity takes courage”. Henri Matisse At the beginning of each...

“So now the flood gates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin.  Anything goes”. Phillip Johnson Last week I said that...

“To abstract is to draw out the essence of a matter.  To abstract in art is to separate certain fundamentals from irrelevant material...

“My work is purely autobiographical.  It’s about myself and my surroundings.  It is an attempt at a record.”             Lucian Freud...

“We are not just executors of our work; we live our work.”   Pablo Picasso The Holidays are upon us and each day brings a new “To Do”...

“The pictures which do not represent an intense interest cannot expect to create an intense interest.”                    Robert Henri...