“Creativity applied to any arena transcends whatever apparent limitations there are.”
Cay Lang, Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist
“Creativity applied to any arena transcends whatever apparent limitations there are.”
Cay Lang, Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist
“Both making art and viewing art require an ongoing investment of energy—lots of energy.”
Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
“There is probably no clearer wste of psychic energy than worrying about how much talent you have.”
Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
“Color is a power which directly influences the soul.”
Wassily Kandinsky
“To be an artist is a good and generous act.”
Cay Lang, Taking the Leap: Building a Career as a Visual Artist
“Fear that you are not a real artist causes you to undervalue your work.”
Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
“Every new idea is just a mashup or a remix of one or more previous ideas….You are, in fact, a mashup of what you choose to let into your life. You are the sum of your influences.”
Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist
“Each ancestor, as it traveled the country, left a trail of words and musical notes along his footprints, and these ‘dreaming tracks’ lay over the land as ‘ways’ of communication between tribes….A song was both map and direction finder. If you knew the song, you could always find your way across country.”
Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines
“Paint is a cast made of the painter’s movements, a portrait of the painter’s body and thoughts.”
James Elkins, What Painting Is
“Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.”
Cyril Connolly