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"Artists never thrive in colonies. Ants do. What budding artists need is the privilege of wrestling with his problems in solitude...and now and then a piece of red meat." ~Henry Miller

“Do not let praise or criticism get to you. It’s a weakness to get caught up in either one.”
John Wooden

Artist Robert Motherwell once said this about abstract art: “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 . . . ”

"It's not where you take things from. It's where you take them to." – Jean-Luc Godard

"When I work, I work very fast, but preparing to work can take any length of time." Cy Twombly

"An artist's working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline." John F. Kennedy

Every good painter paints what he is."-jackson pollock

"It is not your paintings I like, it is your painting."
-Albert Camus

"The painter has the Universe in his mind and hands." ~Leonardo da Vinci

"Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul." -Vincent Van Gogh

"Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time." -Thomas Merton

“ART IS NOT WHAT YOU SEE, BUT WHAT YOU MAKE OTHERS SEE.” - Georgia O'Keeffe

"... what is more important is a feeling of strength in reserve – tension beneath calm." -Richard Diebenkorn

"I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them." ~Pablo Picasso

-quotes above added august 15, 2010

"i paint only myself, not nature" clyfford still, painter
“a life summed up in art is a beautiful thing…” -unknown

“the more you complicate things, the more you lose.” -wolfgang laib, photographer

“painting is the opposite of death. it permits one to survive.” -joan mitchell, artist

“it’s that spontaneous moment, thought or accident that becomes the nonaccident.” -anonymous

“abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.” -p. mondrian

“jackson broke the ice” -r. diebenkorn

“the city expresses modern life, it produces abstract art. and this kind of art will create among us a profoundly rich and human beauty.” -p. mondrian