Foreign territory

What happened to the winter, and the time when I should have had to post?  It has been way to long since I posted here and it feels like what happens when whe stay too far away from our own creativity. I am in foreign territory, I need to get reaquainted with it.

acceptance

I have come to terms with a lot of things, because, when all's said and done, there's really very little one can do about a lot of things. You just accept them. The point is you just have to keep on working and you just have to keep on living. (Jim Dine)

Jim dine

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)

do artist need safety nets?

Thoughts on risks

playing it safe and

being uncomfortable

The outside wold pressures you into a mold, but if you don't accept that - you gamble with life. Call it gambling. (Louise Nevelson)

The only way to be absolutely safe is never to try anything for the first time. (Magnus Pyke)

fire within

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. (Pierre Teilhard de Chardin)

Alfredo Liongoren)

I work in bursts of energy... like mad fires let loose into nervous breakdowns. And it affected everyone in my life. Perhaps it was God's design to give me a wife who was trained as a psychiatric nurse. (Alfredo Liongoren)

living on the edge....without boundaries

benda

For me art is a continuous discovery into reality, an exploration of visual data which has been going on for centuries, each artist contributing to the next generation's advancement. I wanted to go a step further and extend the boundaries. (Audrey Flack)

Today's thoughts

Artists speak in a visual language which includes: color, line, shape, texture, surface, space, lightness and darkness. As artists we incorporate the elements of balance, movement and unity to further define our work. Art is a visual narration.

Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas. (Arshile Gorky)

The artist journey

cbenda

When I paint, the ocean roars. Others merely paddle in their bath. (Salvador Dali)

My whole life has been spent walking by the side of a bottomless chasm, jumping from stone to stone. Sometimes I try to leave my narrow path and join the swirling mainstream of life, but I always find myself drawn inexorably back towards the chasm's edge, and there I shall walk until the day I finally fall into the abyss. (Edvard Munch)

And I said, 'Well, who cares? I'd rather do it and see what it's all about.' I don't want the safe way. The safe way limits you. (Louise Nevelson)