| Author | Message | ||
  rainbow |
Don't know the origin of this one but I always liked it. I think it may be Mother Theresa. "If I cannot do great things, I will do small things in a great way." | ||
Judy3x |
When getting too much praise on a painting "I just held the brush, God moved the paint" Me | ||
Kukana |
"I am tired of art shows!"-Kukana- | ||
Kukana |
I am the foe of moderation and the champion of excess. I'd rather be boldly wrong than weakly right! Can't remember who said it! | ||
jj |
"Love like paint, can make things beautiful when you spread it, but it simply dries up when you don't use it." - Author Unknown | ||
islandartist |
One day, sitting in the hospital, waiting for my Dad to come back from radiation therapy, I came across an article written by a woman at a camp for special needs kids. She gave a welcoming speech about how they were all "important". She said, some times you may feel little and some times you may feel helpless and some times you may feel like what you do doesn't matter. When you feel this way, just remember the last time you were in a room at night with a mosquito. Not an exact quote- but it hit home that day. | ||
islandartist |
I have the Nelson Mandela quote hanging on my wall. Jacq | ||
She who is full of herself! |
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves,"Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small doesn't serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We were born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It's not just in some of us. It's in everyone, and as we let our own light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others. Nelson Mandella 1994 Inarguaral Speech. | ||
jj |
"A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." - Paul Cézanne | ||
jj |
Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life. -Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890) | ||
jj |
Art is man's expression of his joy in labor. -William Morris (1834-1896) | ||
jj |
Art is the signature of civilizations. -John Ruskin (1819- 1900) | ||
jj |
Art takes nature as its model. Aristotle (384 - 322 B.C.) | ||
Kukana |
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstien- "Good Art Doesn't Match Your Sofa! There is art that decorates and art that liberates. If you really need art to match your sofa might I suggest buying an identical sofa and hang it above your existing sofa. This is called conceptual art" -Fred Baal- "I succeeded in simply attending, as a spectator, the birth of all my work" -I think Monet?- "It is not clear that intelligence has any long term survival value...creativity does." -Stephen Hawking- "Art and Music are the drugs of choice for millions of kids. If we expect them to say no to chemical highs we must recognize the healing alternative of their own creativity. Demand and support the real anti drug program...art in education" -Fred Baal- I don't believe in art..I believe in artists!!! Time becomes meaningless in the face of creativity. Art is a working agent..not a seditive. Art breaks the rules! Someday I'll be known as the artist formerly known as Starving! All these by Fred Baal | ||
piper |
I stumbled upon this and had to share! And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" Rudyard Kipling | ||
Lex |
Hey, sometimes I'm fulla crap, sometimes not. J | ||
Cathy |
Bravo Lex! | ||
Lex |
All trained actors (and, in my opinion, anyone can be trained on the job in a matter of minutes - it ain't that hard, frankly) understand the importance of intent. As they progress through a play or a scene, what matters most are these basic concerns: What am I doing, physically, consciously, moment to moment? What do I want, from myself and from the other characters? How can I get what I want? Naturally, there are other considerations that are explored during the rehearsal process. All of these amount to intent. All of these can be reduced in essence to what the actor intends to do at this moment...during the next moment...and the next and so on throughout the scene and the play. Those moments don't correspond to ticks of a clock because, despite the illusion, great theatre (including films and TV) doesn't happen in realtime. So I began to substitute the concept of measuring stage time in units of intention. It is a flexible measurement of time that depends on what is going on at any given moment. The concept occurred to me when I read a comment from Shaw that if a scene appears to be dragging, perhaps it is because the scene needs to be slowed down a bit. In other words, the actors and director haven't taken the time to fully explore what is going on during an apparently slow scene, so they are expressing nothing and the audience is getting nothing. It was a revelation for me. I've seen the effect of failing to grasp Shaw's concept. A local production of William Mastrosimone's "Extremeties" in which my then-wife performed wound up omitting the entire opening sequence because the director and lead actress (not my ex-) did not understand how to construct a long scene with no dialogue. I'm certain the playwright would have been annoyed since even Farrah Fawcett, an occasionally talented but inconsistent actress, managed to pull off the scene in a televised production. Actors and directors in stage plays tend to be deathly afraid of silence because they associate silence and absence of action with a missed cue. So when I directed Beth Henley's "Crimes of the Heart" for a local theatre I was prepared. There's a scene in which the character Meg sits sullenly smoking a cigarette and doing absolutely nothing else for an unspecified length of time before blurting out, "Well, I feel like hell!" During rehearsals, noticing the actress was uncomfortable with the scene and rushing things, I had her sit and smoke the entire cigarette before saying the line. Now, I wasn't planning to subject an audience to that much smoke, but I wanted the actress to learn to fit into that time and use it. We talked about the things going through Meg's head: her behaviors that annoyed her older sister; the way she'd dumped her former, now married, boyfriend after he was injured in a tornado; the circumstances of her return home (her younger sister had been arrested for shooting and wounding her husband because she "didn't like his stinkin' looks!"); etc. And by performance time this actress was able to carry off the scene, the length of which I never specified - I told her to just run with it from night to night - with the most subtle gestures: finger drumming; a furtive look here or there; etc. She was dynamite and the audience never failed to explode with laughter when she blurted out that single line after the pressure-building silence. Now, frankly, I prefer a faster paced story. I'm a tremendous fan of those black and white films of Hollywood's golden era with a snappy pace and saucy patter. Those great films weren't littered with useless, supposedly dramatic background noise. But I especially love a story that can combine this with the occasional off-speed pacing that draw you in closer. In a sense, artists who paint in a somewhat realistic vein - essentially, all artists except those engaging in pure, non-materialistic abstraction (and abstraction has its equivalent in theatre too) - deal with the same considerations. What does this color mean? What is the effect of this other color on the others? What do I intend to accomplish with this brushstroke? And so on. My main goal as an artist is to take some of those lessons from theatre and successfully apply them. | ||
Dake |
Hey Lex, What's a "unit of intention". I mean is it a measurement of some kind? | ||
Dake |
I found this on a joke page: Never be afraid to try something new. Remember that amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic. Dake | ||
Kukana |
Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life. Pablo Picasso | ||
Cathy |
Kukana, that is the best description of art I have ever heard. Gratitude helps us rise above ourselves and acknowledge that our all talent and inspiration come from He who created us. | ||
Kukana |
"The essence of all beautiful art...all great art is gratitude." Friedrich Nietzche | ||
jaeyer |
Anyone looking for a very good art book get a cc of John Carlson, Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting. I may just be behind in this but it is the best that I have seen. Not a new book but it has been reprinted several times. Probably you pros know about it!!! Jerry | ||
Lex |
Here's something I once told an actress who was struggling with a long pause in a scene (I used to be active in local theatre and directed a few plays): I told her that silence onstage cannot be measured in ticks of the clock, but must be measured in units of intention. She absorbed it and translated it beautifully. Of course, it helps to have a cast who are the equivalent of Winsor & Newton artist grade paints, 300 lb. Arches and true Kolinsky sable brushes. In such rare cases, directing is mostly a matter of scheduling rehearsals and muttering encouragement. Every once in a while it's gratifying, in a self-congratulatory sort of way, to have come up with just the right thing to say at the right time. Now...if I could just figure out a way to translate that to my painting... | ||
Geeky2 |
Ben Shaw? re Frank Webb: "Art is an 'intending' activity." Frank Webb says it means, "One aught to have some notion where you are going before one begins." He says his design seldom changes, once he begins, but sometimes his colors do. (Hope I quoted this correctly.) | ||
Geeky2 |
Frank Webb: "I paint to discover something about the world out there. I paint to discover something about what's inside me, as a response. I paint to discover what painting is about." | ||
Birdpainter |
Grace: No, no website yet, although I've been thinking about it for some time. So far, I just have paintings in a couple of galleries, I've done a few shows, and I regularly enter various national competitions. I guess a website is next on the list of things to do. | ||
Lex |
"It's the little things that matter most - especially when they wet on you in the middle of the night." | ||
Grace Swan |
Hi Howard (Birdpainter).... Re: your 7 yr old Daughter's conclusion -- "...that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, 'You mean they forget?' " That was FUNNY. Kids do say the funniest things. Q: Do you have a Birdpainter web site? Grace of Ft Lauderdale | ||
Birdpainter |
Hi gang: Here's a couple more! "If you strive to paint only what the eye sees, then a camera either gives you too little information or too much." -Manfred Schatz "The tyranny of the thing seen...if the painter isn't prepared to assert himself and control the elements in a painting, he's not functioning as an artist." --Picasso | ||
jaeyer |
patinsc Pat I have been out a few days but got back today. Will have to catch up. Jerry | ||
SutureSelf |
"I wonder why I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder. I wonder why I wonder why I wonder why I wonder." - Richard Feynman | ||
jj |
Have no fear of perfection- you'll never reach it. - Salvador Dali | ||
jj |
Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams | ||
Geeky2 |
"When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college- that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared back at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?" ~ Howard Ikemoto | ||
jj |
The artist is a recepticle for the emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web. - Pablo Picasso | ||
Geeky2 |
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye--it also includes the inner pictures of the soul. -Edvard Munch | ||
Laura36 |
Okay, I'll join in. Sorry if I quoted this already: "Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent." Calvin Coolidge. | ||
Kukana |
A Couple more my friends , then I'll stop. (I have a mind full of these!) I was born to shiver in the draft of an open mind-Phyllis McGinley Life is too short ot stuff a mushroom-Shirley Conran You may do foolish things, but do them with enthusiasm!-Colette- Its the friends that you can call (or talk to on CJAS Board) at 4am that matter! Marlene Dietrich | ||
Kukana |
I want to love first, ..and live incidentally-Zelda Fitzgerald My life has been a tapestry of rich and royal hue. An ever changing vision of an ever changing view-Carol King Too much of a great thing is WONDERFUL!-Mae West Listen! Everyone is intitled to my opinion. -Madonna Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels!-Faith Whittlesey | ||
patinsc |
jaeyer, Hello! Where have you been ? We have been talking into the night and most of the day. Thought you had abandoned us. | ||
jaeyer |
"It is better to paint from memory, for thus your work will be your own; your sensation, your intelligence, and your soul will triumph over the eye of the amateur...Do not finish your work too much." Paul Gauguin Jerry | ||
Kukana |
I am the Foe of Moderation, the champion of excess. I'd rather be stronly wrong than weakly right!-Tallulah Bankhead- I am not looking for my dreams to interpret my life but rather for my life to interpret my fondest dreams-Susan Sontag Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature. It is either a daring adventure or nothing.-Helen Keller- | ||
piper |
This is not quote but it speaks to me. A Kindergarten teacher was observing her classroom of children while they drew. She would occasionally walk around to see each child's artwork. As she got to one little girl who was working diligently, she asked what the drawing was. The girl replied, "I'm drawing God." The teacher paused and said, "But no one knows what God looks like. Without missing a beat, or looking up from her drawing, the girl replied, "They will in a minute." | ||
Geeky2 |
" Color in itself expresses something."- Vincent Van Gogh "A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art." - Paul Cézanne "Talent! What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous work in the right way." - Winslow Homer | ||
Geeky2 |
A painting is never finished - it simply stops in interesting places. - Paul Gardner Have you seen that portrait Gaugin did of me painting sunflowers? it was really I, but it's I gone mad. -Vincent Van Gogh I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for. -Georgia O'Keeffe | ||
Geeky2 |
"There's a fine line between fishing and standing on the shore like an idiot." S. Wright | ||
feather |
"Fall down seven times, get up eight" (old Japanese Proberb) Here is one for Kukana: "You only need so much money in life, the rest you just use for showing off." (movie, Forest Gump) Okay, I changed my mind, here is a second one for Kukana....(I am allowed to change my mind because I'm a woman! We have this inborn right you know!) "Gold is only for the people that are poor of heart." (Victor Villasenor) "It's alright to have butterflies in your stomach, just get them to fly in formation." (Dr. Rob Gilbert) "Poor is the man who's pleasures depend on the approval of another." (I don't want to tell you who said this. Okay, I guess I have to, darn! I hope it doesn't spoil it for you but it was Madonna.) Unworthy is a friend that says, "Your path is this way, and not that way". (Not sure who said this) "Everytime you push yourself outside your comfort zone you're growing" (Sorry, I don't know who said this either) Please someone stop me! Okay, okay, if you insist....But just one more quote for tonight: "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes." (Marcil Proust) | ||
patinsc |
Alright One More, "To sleep, perchance to dream" you know who! Goodnight all! | ||
patinsc |
OK, One more. "Creativity is harnessing universality and making it flow through your eyes." Peter Koestenbaum | ||
patinsc |
"In the brush doing what it's doing, it will stumble on what one coouldn't so by oneself." Robeert Motherwell | ||
feather |
I just LOVE it! Keep up the quotes. They are so inspirational and fun! | ||
Geeky2 |
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new. - Albert Einstein Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. - Scott Adams | ||
Geeky2 |
Art washes from the Soul, the dust of everyday life. ~Picasso Every child is an artist, The problem is to remain an artist when he grows up,----Pablo Ruizy Picasso. | ||
Kukana |
"It was not fear, nor a lack of courage that prevented man from discovering that the world was indeed round...but rather the illussion of knowledge" Quoted by Frank Webb "I am no longer afraid of storms for I have learned to sail my own ship"-Louisa May Allcott "Art is not something I do..it is who I am..an extension of my life" -Kukana- | ||
patinsc |
Jean, Why did I know you would still be here? Check your E-mail. | ||
Geeky2 |
"Art is neither a profession nor a hobby. Art is a way of being." Frederick Franck | ||
Geeky2-VA |
I spoke with one of the moderators on WetCanvas. They were having some server difficulties and it is taking them much longer than expected, to get going again. I've missed them too. You can get to some of the individual lessons (by searching on Wetcanvas.com and picking some lessons), but not the main page or message forums. Jean | ||
lbailey |
Does anyone know what happened to Wetcanvas? it is no longer available. | ||
Ginnie |
For those of you interested in reading an artist newsletter pertaining to the thought processes that go into painting, I'd suggest Robert Genn's Twice Weekly Newsletter. www.painterskeys.com free, interesting, insightfull. Ginnie | ||
roger marz |
painting is to seeing as dance is to the body. Emerson |
