Resolutions

As artists, we must learn to be self nourishing. We must become alert enough to consciously replenish our creative resources as we draw on them – to restock the trout pond, so to speak. (Julia Cameron)

The end of the first 100 days of posting.

Sound of color

Every guitarist has a special quality of sound. The best ones will use a good ear, much sensitivity, and a thorough knowledge of music to prepare the nuances and colors of sound.
Andres Sergovia

Relationships

Piet Mondrian
Everything is expressed through relationships. (Piet Mondrian)

Aging

As you grow older you realize that art has an enormous effect. It's frightening sometimes to think of the effect that we can have. (Andy Goldsworthy)

Imagination

Edward Hopper
No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination. (Edward Hopper)

Emotion

Milton Avery
I try to construct a picture in which shapes, spaces, colors, form a set of unique relationships, independent of any subject matter. At the same time I try to capture and translate the excitement and emotion aroused in me by the impact with the original idea. (Milton Avery)

Staying the course

Juan Gris
You are lost the moment you know what the result will be. (Juan Gris)

Individualism

Paul Gauguin
Art = a mad search for individualism. ()

Merry Christmas

Said the night wind to the little lamb,
"Do you see what I see?
Way up in the sky, little lamb,
Do you see what I see?
A star, a star, dancing in the night
With a tail as big as a kite,
With a tail as big as a kite."

Peace on Earth

"I heard the bells on Christmas Day
Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet the words repeat
Of peace on earth, good - will to men!
- Longfellow

Journey

Ken Campbell
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. (Joseph Campbell)

I think of art and painting as a journey, not simply a destination. I believe an artist needs to start by painting 100 works. Love the journey. (Ken Campbell)

Experience

Eugene Delacroix
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. (Confucius)

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done. (Eugene Delacroix)

Struggle

Francis Bacon
A picture should be a re-creation of an event rather than an illustration of an object; but there is no tension in the picture unless there is a struggle with the object. (Francis Bacon)

On painting and composition

Rauschenberg
Painting is always strongest when in spite of composition, color, etc., it appears as a fact, or an inevitability, as opposed to a souvenir or arrangement. (Robert Rauschenberg)

Strength

If you can handle three elements, handle only two. If you can handle ten, then handle only five. In that way the ones you do handle, you handle with more ease, more mastery, and you create a feeling of strength in reserve. (Pablo Picasso)

Some truths

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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge, / That myth is more potent than history, / That dreams are more powerful than facts, / That hope always triumphs over experience, / That laughter is the cure for grief. / And I believe that love is stronger than death. (Robert Fulghum)

Failure

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Failure is that early morning hour of darkness which precedes the dawning of the day of success. (Leigh Mitchell Hodges)
Failure is merely feedback that there is something blocking the path of the emergence and expansion of the greatest version of yourself. (Mother Teresa)

Larger than life

Mark Rothko

The reason for my painting large canvases is that I want to be intimate and human. To paint a small picture is to place yourself outside your experience, to look upon an experience as a stereopticon view or with a reducing glass. However you paint the larger picture, you are in it. It isn't something you command. (Mark Rothko)

Prayer

The word compositon moved me spiritually and I made it my aim in life to paint a composition. It affected me like a prayer and filled me with awe. (Wassily Kandinsky)

Power of Image and Words

Botticelli

Let it Be --Lennon and McCarthy
When I find myself in times of trouble
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
And in my hour of darkness
She is standing right in front of me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be.

And when the broken hearted people
Living in the world agree,
There will be an answer, let it be.
For though they may be parted there is
Still a chance that they will see
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be. Yeah
There will be an answer, let it be.

And when the night is cloudy,
There is still a light that shines on me,
Shine on until tomorrow, let it be.
I wake up to the sound of music
Mother Mary comes to me
Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
Let it be, let it be.
There will be an answer, let it be.
Let it be, let it be,
Whisper words of wisdom, let it be