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| IDEAS, PHILOSOPHY, COMMENTS, and NOTABLE QUOTATIONS |
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| This page is, more or less' an art journal noting my fears and concerns when I approach art-making. I don't pretend to have any special knowledge or any original ideas, so please don't be an ass if some of the thoughts here sound familiar. I attempt to cite any borrowed ideas. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Art is a habit of the intellect, developed with practice over time, that empowers the artist to make the work right and protects him from deviating from what is good for the work. It unites what he is with what his material is. It leads him to seek his own depths. Its purpose is not his self-enhancement, his having fun or feeling good about himself. These are byproducts. It aims solely toward bringing a new thing into existence in the truest manner possible. It is about truth and, as such, posits self-sacrifice and consecration. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Once a level of manual accomplishment is reached, the heart and mind must press the hand to another level of making which might involve ideas. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| My clothes are handed down. My speech is handed down. My genes are handed down. Even my ideas are hand-me-downs. What part of me is a real person, or at least just a different person. It's not the body that I wear. It's not the thoughts that I have. Some philosophers say that it is the realization of self, subjective experience. OK... hmmm... maybe it is subjective experience. But... how do I use that in my art? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| What is the measure of a person? Clothes, cars, money, job, family, happiness, fulfillment, respect, love? Satisfaction? | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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a couple of quotes: I never intended to make art. > Walt Disney Art is I; Science is We. > Claude Bernard Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. > Pablo Picasso Art flourishes where there is a sense of adventure. > Alfred North Whitehead Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms. > Roy Lichtenstein |
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