Emile Zola said, “The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”
So, I guess we all need to get to work and get all those terrific ideas down on canvas or onto card stock!
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I was thinking today about things I’ve done that turned out really nice because I didn’t realize there were “rules” about using the materials. So, I’ve got a new Thursday Thought for you:
To be an artist, learn the rules. You need to know how to do certain things, like create the illusion of something far […]
Franklin D. Roosevelt says, “Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.”
Isn’t it nice to realize that we don’t all have to travel to Paris or back in time to the age of Impressionism to make art? […]
Philip Guston says, “I am a night painter, so when I come into the studio the next morning the delirium is over. I come into the studio very fearfully, I creep in to see what happened the night before. And the feeling is one of, “My God, did I do that?”.”
With all the studio renovations […]
Ray Man says, “I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. I photograph the things that I do not wish to paint, the things which already have an existence.”
I thought it was funny that I came across this particular quote this week, […]
Martha Graham says, “No artist is ahead of his time. He is his time; it is just that others are behind the times.”
I do believe she’s right. Artists tend to create a future trend with color palettes, images, etc. By the time the rest of the world catches up, they have moved on to something […]
Picasso says, “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.”
How true! I know I’ve been inspired to create a piece of art from something from nature, an overheard piece of […]
Willa Cather says, “Every artist knows that there is no such thing as “freedom” in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other.”
I […]
I thought I was done talking about originality for awhile, but I couldn’t resist this quote by Salvador Dali: “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.”
Hmm. It makes me want to avoid ever making a […]
Clement Greenberg says, “All profoundly original work looks ugly at first.”
Thinking back to the very first time I saw different techniques and styles, I have to say that he’s probably right. However, I don’t think we should try to make ugly things to be original. I’m positive that the artist didn’t think his or her […]
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