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“To prepare one’s work is first to nourish one’s feelings by studies which have a certain analogy with the picture, and it is through...

“The merit of a painting is undefinable…in a word, it is what the spirit adds to color and line that appeals to the soul.”              ...

“I like to think of creativity as the sex of out mental lives”.              Dr. Roger Von Oech Many people often say to me I can’t do...

“Painting is a funny business”.       J.M.W.  Turner As artist we all long for people to validate our work.  We are constantly looking...

“Being an artist means that you can have the ability to imagine yourself into all kinds of othernesses.  Doing that, you can rearrange...

“One of the marks of an intelligent person is to be able to distinguish what is worth doing and what isn’t, and to be able to set...

“Every creative act involves…a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief. “         Arthur Koestler...

“The artist begins with a vision-a creative operation requiring an effort.  Creativity takes courage.”    Henri Matisse Journey Upward   ...

In art intentions are not sufficient…What one does is what counts and not what one has intentions of doing.”            Pablo Picasso...

“The true gift that we’re given every day; that our world despite it many challenges, continues to offer such wondrousness.” ...

Happy New Year! I want to wish all my readers a healthy, happy, and creative New Year. Thank you all for reading the “Creative Spirit”...

Wishing you a Happy Holiday Season “There are moments in our lives, there are moments in a day, when we seem to see beyond the usual. ...

“For art and joy go together, with bold openness, and high head, and ready hand-fearing naught, and dreading no exposure.”               ...

“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together”                   John Ruskin I had the opportunity...

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step?”                                               Leo Tzu I have written a lot lately...

“When I get my ego out of my art I can experience the freedom of non-attachment to outcome. What a sigh — no, a yell! — of relief. When I...

“What lies behind us, and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.”                              Ralph...

“A painting should not be a battlefield it must be a statement.  Set out with something to say and not with a vague desire to say...

“Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.”      Edgar Degas As we have established in past “Blogs” art is a dialogue...

“It is all very well to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what one no longer sees except in memory. A transformation is...