At moments of great enthusiasm it seems to me that no one in the world has ever made something this beautiful and important.
::: M.C. Escher :::
A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing.
::: William Dobell :::
The music that really turns me on is either running toward God or away from God. Both recognize the pivot, that God is at the center of the jaunt.
::: Bono :::
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
::: Michelangelo :::
My personal favorite:
Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.
::: John Lennon :::
Today as I travel across the country I find myself contemplating life as an art. Completely applying this phrase to every moment which finds me lost...'Life is art'. The way the clouds cast shadows on the bright green rolling hills, the way the hawk flies across the sky and changes direction just in rhythm with the music playing in my car,
I wonder about my own art style and when I will be satisfied with it in this life.
It seems to me I find it hard to create something out of thin air. When I was younger I would draw for hours upon hours. I would wake up in the middle of the night, turn on my radio and just draw characters. As I grew older it is as if it is quite impossible for me to do that. I start to draw from my mind and just stop. It's as if I am questioning my ability along with the fear of what I could create possibly.
I find myself back to the more realistic aspects of art like grabbing a book and drawing a random portrait but some how it never turns out the way I perceive it. It's as though I see how it is but I can't capture exactly what it is.
I guess that goes for a lot of things outside of the art world regardless if I believe 'Life is Art' or not.
My life is changing rapidly and I feel it with every breath. I feel like I am headed in the right direction and many things will fall into place now. Just driving across the country my mom received a random phone call about the farm in Lexington we've been trying to sell since November of 2006. Someone that was interested in it. This is the first call she's gotten in months and she receives it on the day we we're leaving Kentucky. Whether or not this caller will be the buyer is beyond me, but still the flow of life is questionable.
My mom also informed me of a woman she knows that is in the music industry and is a portuguese singer. My mom told me that she would help her with marketing in exchange for singing lessons. A little eerie to me because aside from the fact that I've always wanted to be an interior designer I've wanted to be a singer and sing in portuguese and I've never told anyone that.
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I absolutely adore Nelly Furtado's early style of music---I think it's quite genius to be honest. Creative!
The way she incorporates portuguese, brazilian and hip hop influences with a beautiful portuguese twang and vibrato is amazing to me. I'm not really a fan of Promiscuous Girl though.
- The things we truly love stay with us always, locked in our hearts as long as life remains.
- - Josephine Baker
TThis world needs more Josephine Baker's and less Marilyn Monroe's.
Live your life to the fullest!
Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ~Henry Ward Beecher
Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one. ~Stella Adler
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. ~Scott Adams
Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in. ~Amy Lowell
Life. is. Art.
| art 1 (ärt) n. 1. Human effort to imitate, supplement, alter, or counteract the work of nature. |
All art requires courage. ~Anne Tucker
To end this blog post I want to remind you once more that no matter where life takes you or what you manifest that you are the artist and an artist cannot fail for it is success to be one.
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