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“Creation is the artist’s true function: where there is no creation there is no art.” Henri Matisse Art is about telling our story. We each have a different story; colored by past experiences. Even children from the same family, who experience the same event, will…
Read detailsThe Importance of Being Creative Every child is an artist, the problem is staying an artist when you grow up.” Pablo Picasso It was just a year ago that I started this blog on the “Creative Spirit”. It was started, as a way, to keep…
Read details“I believe in an unconscious. So, it’s possible to say that something causes something and you’re not aware of it. You just do what you do.” …
Read details“What still concerns me the most is: am I on the right track, am I making progress, am I making mistakes in art? Such things as materials, and care in the actual process of painting, and even in the preparing of canvas, are the least important. They can always be fixed up, can’t they? …
Read details“I paint as I feel like painting…An artist has to be spontaneous.” Edouard Manet We have been discussing getting into our right brain so we can allow our creative spirit to flow. I read a quote this past week from Victor Frankl’s, “Mans Search for Meaning”. “Don’t aim at success…the more you aim at it…
Read details“Each painting has its own way of evolving…the painting is finished; the subject reveals itself”. William Baziotes Many people have difficulty getting started. One of the chief blocks to our “creative spirit” is the notion that we are…
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