Artist Say

Quotes That I Have Written Over The Years About LIFE And ART

My View - If I May!... About Art Today

We live in a society that has a need for simple, quick, modern art, although we don't know what it is, or represents, not even the Artist, but we can' t live without it, because somehow it pleases us enough to sustain our desires in feeling good. Can some even see through the deliberate influence of the 21st century Art Critics that blinded our world with other people easy creations ... done before breakfast ... by so many? The Art World, "where simple is not fast enough", and how about the award going to a blank canvas of white, in Melbourne 2004? Forgive me for living in a democracy ... to express my heart for Art."

The Artist - The Intelligent Viewer

Why would an Artist paint a subject in a photographic sense to copy or even trace in desperation and call it 'Art' - while artistically it should be an interpretation of what is seen or imagined instead. Then on blank canvas or paper - in whatever style is chosen, the magic will begin and will become unique - this can only be 'Real Art'. History has proven this, as all known Artists have had a signature style - discover yours!"

In our now fast paced modern Society of the Western World ... even ordinary people as we most are ... have given ourselves the selfish right to complain of every trivial issue, that in turn sickens us, resulting in stress and depression ... influenced and blinded by the Media with unrealistic perspectives ... should we not pause a little and maybe think how lucky we are with our riches ... just think that if we eat out at a restaurant we would spend more than the average monthly income of the poor who live in many Third World Countries ... are we truly gluttonous and spoilt ...and only think of our personal short comings ... daily?

Of all the gifts that God has bestowed upon man - there is no greater than having an ability to express one's soul in Art. Let it be pure and untamed by the hand and mind, this rare gift among Artists, which is unfavoured by critics - but looked kindly upon by God!"

Where does an Artist go in life - I think and Artist who has discovered himself - who has found himself is in a dangerous position, basically he's finished ............"

Life is like a big canvas ... throw all the paint you can."

My expression in Art is not necessarily a modern day's acceptable version of the expression of Art today! Thus ... their eventuality may not be, or play any part of societies' needs or taste for mundane, normal decorations"

True appreciation of an Artist's pure, unhampered talent and devotion, knows his inner vocation may be fruitless during his own life, as was with the great Van Gogh ... you can accept with conviction it is so, no matter how good a talent is ... even amongst normal decorations ........"

In my Art - I try to speak my own language - whether it can be understood or accepted by another is irrelevant in life!"

My enduring legacy should only be to have captured even in a small way, man's visionary excitement through my Art ... whatever the period of time they may be living! ........"

The truth in Art must truly lie in the suffering within the competition of it."

A painting has to come from the heart and not the head ... that's my principal and motto.

No one tries to find out whether the portraits of great men are even a good likeness, so long as their genius was brought to life in them."

Composers, sculptors, painters and poets, these are the makers of the afterworld, the architects of heaven ... the world is beautiful because they have lived and without them, laboring humanity would have perished."

Looking at the whole picture for some ... may not be as it seems ... as minor details are a small minded person's enlightenment to fulfillment, thus deciding the whole picture's perception when in actual fact, it's over-looked, even misunderstood and unjustly labeled, then forgotten."

To be a good Artist you must have the union of Mind, Body and Spirit."

There can be no Art without suppressed turmoil, then again ... can an Artist be just happy and express his inner side, and still be noticed seriously!"

A painter shouldn't paint what he sees, but what he perceives with his soul. If he can't perceive with his soul ... he should refrain from painting what he sees!"

What do we see - its perception of the awareness of what we are looking at, the appearance, the characteristics which are not immediately evident to the eye."

Expressionist Art is .... The Artist who strives to express his feelings rather than record his observation."

We should all enjoy the manifestations of the creative impulse in man."

Close you eyes so that your inner eye can see your painting first ... then reproduce what you've seen in the dark .... so that it's effect, is from the inside out."

Artists do not share one language ... although it's all an art that they do!"

If you happen to be an Artist and your heart and soul is not in it ... what ever you produce ... the outcome shall always be seen by others as ' Shallow '."

A lonely landscape is the perfect image ... a reflection of a man longing to love."

In religion, God is not transcendent but an idealization of the man - and in Art, the work of Art is not an abstraction from life, but a direct imitation of its sensuous, perceptual appearance."

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