Quotes Archive

  • Aug 19

  • Some details

    My newest palette.

    palette

    And here are some details of what I am working on for my November solo show.

    detail 2

    detail 1

    detail 3

    These are in varying stages and are not close to being done. I am excited with the progress. I read a great quote today from

    Jenny Saville

    “every mark has perspective”

    it was scribled on a note in her studio that was photographed.

  • Mar 19

  • Relating

    “To some extent I happily don`t know what I`m doing. I feel that it`s an artist`s responsibility to trust that.”
    David Bryne

  • Mar 08

  • Black Elk

    Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people
    miss.
    Black Elk

  • Dec 14

  • Honesty

    “The only reason that we don’t open our hearts and minds
    to other people is that they trigger confusion in us that we don’t feel
    brave enough or sane enough to deal with. To the degree that we look
    clearly and compassionately at ourselves, we feel confident and
    fearless about looking into someone else’s eyes.
    Then this
    experience of opening to the world begins to benefit ourselves and
    others simultaneously. The more we relate with others, the more quickly
    we discover where we are blocked, where we are unkind, afraid, shut
    down. Seeing this is helpful, but it is also painful. Often the only
    way we know how to react is to use it as ammunition against ourselves.
    We aren’t kind. We aren’t honest. We aren’t brave, and we might as well
    give up right now.
    That’s the beginning of growing up. As long as we
    don’t want to be honest and kind with ourselves, then we are always
    going to be infants. When we begin just to try to accept ourselves, the
    ancient burden of self-importance lightens up considerably. Finally
    there’s room for genuine inquisitiveness, and we find we have an
    appetite for what’s out there.”
    – Pema Chodron
    via whiskey river

  • Dec 01

  • On obsession

    “The very people who believe that everything has already been discovered and everything said, will greet your work as something new, and will close the door behind you, repeating once more that nothing remains to be said.” . . . “Newness is in the mind of the artist who creates, and not in the object he portrays.”
    “What moves men of genius, or rather, what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.”
    – Eugene Delacroix
    journal – May 14, 1824 Paris
    via Whiskey River