Flowers are an education in a vase.
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.
I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.
Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.
Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.
It's better to have a small diamond than a large piece of glass.
Quality is always in style.
We are trying to evoke and reinforce meanings from the spaces we cover and the times we're given. Short or long this becomes our purpose. What we artists do is important stuff.
There is no progress without product.
Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.
Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.
Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.
By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.
Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.
My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.
Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.
According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.
