A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people. ― Edgar Degas Edgar Degas, Four Dancers, 1899
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Quote for Today: Samantha Schutz
I visit him a few times downtown while he paints. We talk about how he's going to Spain for the fall semester and he shows me a painting he did and points to this one part, a bridge, and tells me he thought of me when he painted it. It is so sad how … Continue reading Quote for Today: Samantha Schutz
Quote for Today: Norman Rockwell
The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back. ― Norman Rockwell Nicholas Roerich, On the Heights, Tummo, 1936
Quote for Today: Cath Crowley
I spray the sky fast (sic). Eyes ahead and behind. Looking for cops. Looking for anyone I don't want to be here. Paint sails and the things that kick in my head scream from can to brick. See this, see this. See me emptied onto a wall. Cath Crowley, Graffiti Moon Image: Untitled by Rafael … Continue reading Quote for Today: Cath Crowley
Quote for Today: Katja Michael
No, you don't shoot things. You capture them. Photography means painting with light. And that's what you do. You paint a picture only by adding light to the things you see. ― Katja Michael Public Domain Image via Pixabay
Quote for Today: W. Somerset Maugham
I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men (sic) create out of the chaos. The pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all these … Continue reading Quote for Today: W. Somerset Maugham
Quote for Today: Ezra Pound
We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time. --Ezra Pound, The Guide to Kulchur Image: Duff Axsom … Continue reading Quote for Today: Ezra Pound
