Simplicity

By using patches of color and tone it is possible to capture every natural impression in the simplest way, freshly and immediately. (Paul Klee)

Thinking outside the box

Buckminster Fuller

Love

Robert Indiana
Love is metaphysical gravity. (Buckminster Fuller)

Three generations of artists

age 29, in a letter to his mother, July 26, 1911...
Treasure Island is completed! The entire set of seventeen canvases without one break in my enthusiasm and spirit. Better in every quality than anything I ever did. (N. C. Wyeth)



I surrendered to a world of my imagination, re-enacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. (Andrew Wyeth)


My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations... (Jamie Wyeth)

For Meghan

(Louise Nevelson)

I believe in my work and the joy of it. You have to be with the work and the work has to be with you. It absorbs you totally and you absorb it totally. Everything must fall by the wayside by comparison. (Louise Nevelson)


I've taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. (Louise Nevelson)
(Louise Nevelson)

Power of painting

Jasper Johns
I am just trying to find a way to make pictures. (Jasper Johns)
Most of the power of painting comes through the manipulation of space... but I don't understand that. (Jasper Johns)

Freedom

1978 figure about 50" square


It was without thought that I painted large. I felt I was entitled to. Now, 30 years later it overwhelms me. Innocence allows for so much more freedom.