Spaces

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
(John Updike)

Space is the breath of art.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Trust

I am not sure why I picked this photo. Perhaps it is because even though it snowed last night I trust spring is just around the corner. Or maybe that before this flower grew in my garden I trusted that one seed planted in the soil with water and sun would yield something so awesome.

The highest art... sets down its creations and trusts in their magic, without fear of not being understood. (Hermann Hesse)




Trust your intuition, your inner knowing; allow yourself to be immersed in the process of creation as a joyous and sacred dance of materials; neither listen to critics nor be one; leap into the dark secure in the knowing that wherever your feet touch down will be the right place at the right time. (Burnell Yow!)

Journey

That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't matter much whether you get where you're going or not. You'll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. (Edward Abbey)

Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler was born in New York City on December 28, 1928, the third and youngest daughter of a noted justice of the New York Supreme Court and his German born wife.  She attended the exclusive Brearley School in Manhattan and the Dalton School where her art teacher was Rufino Tamayo.  He suggested that she go to Bennington College to study painting;

Every canvas is a journey all its own. (Helen Frankenthaler)

Choices

Every picture one paints involves not painting others. (Robert Motherwell)

Always go with the choice that scares you the most, because that's the one that is going to require the most from you. (Caroline Myss)

Strength

Liberty Leading the People

Delacroix depicted Liberty, as both an allegorical goddess-figure and a robust woman of the people, an approach that contemporary critics denounced as "ignoble". The mound of corpses acts as a kind of pedestal from which Liberty strides, barefoot and bare-breasted, out of the canvas and into the space of the viewer. (wikipedia)

encouragement

The essential support and encouragement comes from within, arising out of the mad notion that your society needs to know what only you can tell it. (John Updike)

influences

One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite else. It is remarkable how little the 'willing' of the artist intervenes. (Pablo Picasso)