Post by Stacy on Dec 25, 2009 16:07:11 GMT -5
So it's Christmas and my husband has four siblings so today is not a Valley day. So since I don't have the peace and quiet needed to work on my art I am looking up stuff online about art and thinking about it and stuff.
This is the song I currently have on repeat one. I realized recently that a lot of my favorite songs could be related to drugs. And I wouldn't even know where to buy weed. The strongest thing I've ever done is caffeine.
Ah, but let's replace the drug references with Valley references and the male pronouns with female ones.
Here are some of the quotes I've been finding today that spoke to me.
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Hans Hofmann
"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good." - Barbra Streisand
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." - Edgar Degas
"One might truthfully say that abstract art is stripped bare of other things in order to intensify it, its rhythms, spatial intervals, and color structure. Abstraction is a process of emphasis . . . Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come into existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience -- intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic." - Robert Motherwell
”Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.” - Henry Ward Beecher.
"Rules and models destroy genius and art." - William Hazlitt
This is the song I currently have on repeat one. I realized recently that a lot of my favorite songs could be related to drugs. And I wouldn't even know where to buy weed. The strongest thing I've ever done is caffeine.
Ah, but let's replace the drug references with Valley references and the male pronouns with female ones.
Here are some of the quotes I've been finding today that spoke to me.
"The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak." - Hans Hofmann
"I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good." - Barbra Streisand
"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." - Edgar Degas
"One might truthfully say that abstract art is stripped bare of other things in order to intensify it, its rhythms, spatial intervals, and color structure. Abstraction is a process of emphasis . . . Nothing as drastic an innovation as abstract art could have come into existence, save as the consequence of a most profound, relentless, unquenchable need. The need is for felt experience -- intense, immediate, direct, subtle, unified, warm, vivid, rhythmic." - Robert Motherwell
”Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures.” - Henry Ward Beecher.
"Rules and models destroy genius and art." - William Hazlitt