a few favorite quotes...Between the intitial idea and the finished piece lies a gulf we can see across, but never fully chart. Bayles & Orland
...the soul never thinks without an image. Aristotle When we look at a particular work of northwest coast art and see the shape of it, we are only looking at its after-ife. Its real life is the movement by which it got to be that shape. Bill Reid, Haida carver Truth is the freedom of letting things reveal themselves as they are--but, when anything is revealed, other things are concealed. The best place to get a good glimpse of the truth is not in what we know but on the edge of what we know. John Briggs quoting Martin Heidegger Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. Jasper Johns I know that in my own work the best things are the things that just happened--images that were suddenly caught and that I hadn't anticipated ... I believe in a deeply ordered chaos and in the rules of chance. Francis Bacon Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things. Edgar Degas When I can't work, or when I have a problem I immediately start to draw. In order to disengage myself, to try to find a solution.... They are drawings that I do for myself: I don't do them for others... My drawings are purely functional. Jean Tinguely To see far is one thing; going there is another. Constantin Brancusi When your horse dies, get off. Bayles and Orland It may be a point of great pride to have a Van Gogh on the living room wall, but the prospect of having Van Gogh himself in the living room would put a great many devoted art lovers to rout. Ben Shahn 
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