#art quotes
“The sadness will last forever.”
— Suicide note of Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890)
“Craft, as you may know, comes from the German word Kraft, meaning power or strength. As Emerson said, the law is: "Do the things and you shall have the power. But they who do not the things, have not the powers.” we can’t fake craft. It lies in the act. The strains we have put in the clay break open in the fire. We do not have the craft, or craftsmanship, if we do not speak to the light that lives within the earthly materials; this means ALL earthly materials, including men themselves.“
"It took me seven years before I could, with certainty, center any given piece of clay. Another person might center the clay the first time he sat down to it. His task then might be to allow the centered clay to live into a form which it would itself declare. My task was to learn how to bring in the flying images, how to keep from falling in love with a mistake, how to bring the images in, down, up, smoothly, centered, and then to allow them the kind of breath they cannot have if all they know how to be passionate or repressed.”
M.C. Richards “Centring in Pottery, Poetry abn the Person”
Well, Picasso was a huge misogynistic piece of shit, but that quote is really mind blowing
“in art, perfect doesn’t mean without flaws, it means complete. once it says what I want it to say, it’s perfect.” -one of my really wonderful art professors
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“everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love.” -monet
// create something only you understand. find something no one else will see. nobody thinks what you think.
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I do know my worth, and yet, people seem to overlook my artworks for some reason. It does discourage me sometimes, but I’ll keep on painting and strive to improve myself even if no one notices my value.
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An Investigation into the Sublime Experience and its validity concerning Contemporary Art within the Gallery Space
Dissertation by Katie Varey
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Christine Hill | Art is a sort of experimental station in which one tries out living - John Cage | From the series Service Slogans | 2012 | Tempera on paper | 111.8 × 76.2 cm
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