"The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended" -Rowan Atkinson aka Mr. Bean
"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that theywill also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing." - William S. Burroughs
It is so strange how they become like my children. I start with a blank canvas and I finish with something ALIVE and REAL staring back at me.
It really is like looking at the face of my children, who were also created from nowhere deep inside of me. Sometimes the birth is hard and painful, sometimes it is easy and joyful.
I was so proud to see what Woz said, about how her Leyla (A Beautiful Mystery) is 'her companion' now. Me too, I can feel their presence around me sometimes and I have to resist the urge to speak to them, ask them things.
I suspect if I had kept that canvas I would have spoke to that image. The photo of it does it no justice. That image is so simple, but that stare of hers is so blunt and inescabable, it becomes perhaps the most complicated relationship between her and whomever is looking at her than any other canvas I have ever done.
She DEMANDS you look at her. She dares you too, without ever saying a word. It is no surprise at all Woz needed her to have a name.
How strange it is to me how important art is to all of us. Unlike monsters or money, art does not even have an overall basis for us to act upon it, yet we can not live without it.
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great quotes
"The right to offend is far more important
than the right not to be offended"
-Rowan Atkinson
aka Mr. Bean
"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that theywill also make it exist by observing it. I call it 'creative observation.' Creative viewing."
- William S. Burroughs
"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed."
It is so strange how they become like my children. I start with a blank canvas and I finish with something ALIVE and REAL staring back at me.
It really is like looking at the face of my children, who were also created from nowhere deep inside of me. Sometimes the birth is hard and painful, sometimes it is easy and joyful.
I was so proud to see what Woz said, about how her Leyla (A Beautiful Mystery) is 'her companion' now. Me too, I can feel their presence around me sometimes and I have to resist the urge to speak to them, ask them things.
I suspect if I had kept that canvas I would have spoke to that image. The photo of it does it no justice. That image is so simple, but that stare of hers is so blunt and inescabable, it becomes perhaps the most complicated relationship between her and whomever is looking at her than any other canvas I have ever done.
She DEMANDS you look at her. She dares you too, without ever saying a word. It is no surprise at all Woz needed her to have a name.
How strange it is to me how important art is to all of us. Unlike monsters or money, art does not even have an overall basis for us to act upon it, yet we can not live without it.
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