THE BOOK LOVER

“Good composition is like a suspension bridge; each line adds strength and takes none away…making lines run into each other is not...

“Painting is manual labor, no different from any other: it can be done well, or poorly”                      George Gross Many viewers...

“I’m always saying to myself: ‘that is not right yet.  You can do better’.  It is rare when I can prevent myself from taking a thing up...

” The mystical will always be with us…A whole mass of things that cannot be rationalized…new born thoughts that are not properly formed”...

“The skilled hand is never anything but the servant of the mind…Even if the professional schools should succeed in producing skilled...

“I truly believe artwork does not exist without the viewer.  As an artist you have to let go—something happens that you are not a part of...

Into the Clearing           ( relief print) “I think that when one is young it is the object, the outside world that fires one’s...

“I have two or three days of some real dismal dragging around hoping that something will get together and strike a spark.”              ...

“The word ‘composition’ moved me spiritually, and I later made it my aim in life to paint a ‘composition’.  It affected me like a prayer...

” It is not enough for a painter to be a clever craftsman; he must love to caress his canvas too.” Pierre Auguste Renoir I would like to...

“One must detect and capture the artifices of the great masters, but shrug off all restraint in front of nature and represent it solely...