|
 |
    |
 |
 |
|
Notes is a collection
of quotes and writings that I stumbled upon through my readings. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “The aura given out by a person or object is
as much a part of them as their flesh. The effect that they make
in space is as bond up with them as might be their color or smell.
The effect in space of two different human individuals can be as
different as the effect of a candle and an electric light bulb.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “What do I ask of a painting? I ask it to astonish,
disturb, seduce, convince.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “My object in painting pictures is to try and
move the senses by giving an intensification of reality. Whether
this can be achieved depends on how intensely the painter understands
and feels for the person or object of his choice. Because of this,
painting is the only art in which the intuitive qualities of the
artist may be the most valuable to him than actual knowledge or
intelligence.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ “In my case all painting – and the older
I get, the more it becomes so – is accident. So I foresee it
in my mind, I foresee it, and yet I hardly ever carry it out as
I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I use very
large brushes, and in the way I work I don’t in fact know very
often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are
very much better than I could make it do. Is that an accident? Perhaps
one could say it’s not an accident, because it becomes a selective
process which part of this accident one chooses to preserve. One
is attempting, of course, to keep the vitality of the accident and
yet preserve a continuity.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "As a child I was a lonely person. I had no one to share my
thoughts. I was not even accepted among the losers. I was a beggar
in the world of the others. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "What ever comes after you've done your work,
it doesn't belong to you. You can't control it. The work has to
fight for itself and define itself." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "Everyone discusses (my art) and pretends to understand, as
if it were |
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ |
All artwork on www.cmichaelfineart.com is copyright the respective artists and is not to be duplicated in anyway without the artists written consent. |