Goff James, Untitled, 2018
“An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success.”
Henri Matisse
Image Credit
© Henri Matisse, The Snail 1953 ,Succession Henri Matisse/DACS 2018
Image Source
https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/henri-matisse-1593
“Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.”
Image Credit
© Peju Alatise, Flying Girls, 2016,
Image Source
https://www.departures.com/art-culture/women-african-artists
“My [paintings] have neither object nor space nor line nor anything – no forms. They are light, lightness, about merging, about formlessness, breaking down form.”
Humankind’s actions can be motivated by religion, politics or merely by the inner desire to create and serves mirror-like as a reflection of a particular moment in time. Whatever the particular individual circumstances are image making requires a personal, intellectual or emotional discourse between the instigator and his environment. Artists utilize particular techniques and methods, sometimes perfecting them or even inventing completely new ones, however without spiritual individuality, image making could not achieve anything other than just being non-art.
“Between the art and the artist there is no distance.”
Attributed to Rowan Gillespie
Image Credit
© Rowan Gillespie, Blackrock Dolmen Sculpture, 1988
Image Source
Image Credit
© Amrita Sher-Gil, Three Girls, 1935
Source Credit
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/10087130/The-Indian-Frida-Kahlo.html
“Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea.”
“I always wanted to have the courage to do totally crazy, impossible, and also wrong things.”
