ImPeRfeCt aNd aLiVE: April 2009

I feel like being productively artsy today.

Listen...

"The magic of image making is that the spectacularly thin layers-almost merely layers of concepts-evoke in the observers of the image the whole spread of human emotions. It is hard to believe that such powerful responses are coming from such frail, delicate and inherently evanescent stimuli." -Edwin H. Land

"[Land] is convinced that images can be as effective as words and that every person has a latent ability to make effective contact with another through visual statements." -Ansel Adams

"The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward." - Sean O'Casey

Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.
- Friedrich Nietzsche,"Thus Spoke Zarathustra"

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. ~ Kahlil Gibran

Art is a lie that helps us to realize the truth. - Picasso

“In art the hand can never execute anything higher than the heart can inspire” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” - George Bernard Shaw

All true artists, whether they know it or not, create from a place of no-mind, from inner stillness. -Eckhart Tolle

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. -Renoir

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces. -Thomas Aquinas

Saturday, April 18, 2009

thought