“Artistic expression is a
spirit, not a method, a pursuit, not
a settled goal, an instinct, not a
body of rules.”
Ann Newlands
“I don’t suppose you do know
precisely what you are after.
I do not
think in the creative process anyone
quite knows.
They have a
vague idea – a beckoning, an inkling
of some truth – it is only in the
process that is comes to any
clarity.”
Lawren
Harris
“Where do you begin to find
originality?
By knowing
yourself.
I know that
is not the answer people want to
hear – because that is not easy to
do.
But that is
the answer.”
Gordon
MacKenzie
“What is the biggest
obstacle to creativity?
Attachment
to outcome.
As soon as
you become attached to a specific
outcome, you feel compelled to
control and manipulate what you’re
doing.
And in the
process you shut yourself off to
other possibilities.”
Gordon
MacKenzie
“Instead of trying to
reproduce exactly what I see before
me, I make more arbitrary us of
color to express myself more
forcefully.”
Vincent van
Gogh
“Interpretation is a
necessary ingredient to art.
There’s no
reason to do a work of all you’re
going to do is take calibrated
measurements and reproduce the
subject in another scale.
If you don’t
have anything to say about the
subject you’re depicting, what
purpose does it serve?”
George
Carlson
“Because I am not a patient
person by nature.
I have to be
mentally prepared before tackling a
painting.
From the
onset, I resign myself to the fact
that it will require a great deal of
time and that it will probably never
be done.”
I learned
that spontaneity itself has no value
on It’s own.
Thoughtful
application of paint is important.”
Thomas Daly
“….’Loosening up’ or
whatever you want to call it is a
state of mind, not a state of brush.
Splashing
paint on paper or canvas with the
hand without splashing it on with
the head first will just make a
mess.
Looseness
comes from point of view not
technique.
Spontaneity
is just an illusion”
Charles Reid
“Light is the first of
painters.
There is no
object….that intense light will not
make beautiful.”
Ralph Waldo
Emerson
