Showing posts with label Beverly Pepper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beverly Pepper. Show all posts
Sunday, October 5, 2014
Inspiration Sunday
It's Inspiration Sunday - and your quotes from the Artist to Artist book are from the sections on Seeing and Perception and Solitude:
A painter should be a solitary. Solitude is essential to his art. Alone you belong to yourself only; with even on other person you are only half yourself, and you will be less and less yourself in proportion to the number of companions. ~ Leonardo da Vinci 1452-1519
Leonardo da Vinci - Lady With An Ermine
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he must make others see. ~Edgar Degas 1834-1917
Edgar Degas - Dancers in Pink
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotions reveal to him the hidden truths beneath appearances . . . his eye grafted on his heart reads deeply into the bosom of Nature. That is why the artist has only to trust his eyes. ~Auguste Rodin 1840-1917
Auguste Rodin - The Three Shades
Try to reduce everything you wee to the utmost simplicity. That is, let nothing but the things which are of the utmost importance to you have any place . . . there are lots of clever people who can paint 'anything,' but lacking the seeing power, paint nothing worth while . . . . Seeing is not such an easy thing as it is supposed to be. ~Robert Henri 1865-1929
Robert Henri - Spanish Landscape (1902)
I work alone (I haven't ever found a way of working other than in considerable privacy), and I go to quite considerable lengths to insure that. . . . I don't find it possible to lose myself in the activity if there are other people around. ~Reg Butler 1913-1981
Reg Butler - Manipulator
Art, to me, is seeing. I think you have got to use your eyes as well as your emotions, and one without the other just doesn't work. ~Andrew Wyeth 1917-2009
Andrew Wyeth - Winter 1946
I realized also that the artist is always alone. Early in life I had thought I needed other people to confirm or approve what I was doing. . . . It was important for me to learn that what I wanted was really no different from what other artists wanted: confidence that I could be my own censor, my own audience, my own competition. ~Beverly Pepper 1924-
Beverly Pepper-Parc de l'Estació del Nord, Barcelona
Sometimes I see it and then paint it. Other times I paint it and then see it. ~Jasper Johns 1930-
Jasper Johns - Zero Through Nine (1961)
Actually you see things differently all the time depending on the light, the nature of the day, the way your eyes are focused, the mood you are in. Your focus keeps changing. f Your head is always moving. All these things are happening and it is all changing your perception. ~Janet Fish 1938-
Janet Fish - Black Bowl Red Scarf (2007)
You see, it takes me forever to do a painting, and for that you need peace and quiet. . . . ~Catherine Murphy 1946-Tomorrow we will go back to talking about the women artists featured in the film !Women Art Revolution.
Catherine Murphy - Persimmon (1991)
'Til tomorrow!
~Alex
Sunday, August 31, 2014
Inspiration Sunday
I have 10 inspirational quotes from the Artist to Artist book today. I hope you find them as inspiring as I do!
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| 'Amagansett Oct 2002 J Bartlett' oil pastel and pastel on paper |
But it's the physical properties that are paramount - the marks that a person has put down. And those marks have been throughout our history incredibly powerful things....It's that very inappropriateness of art, that it's a shock, that it's something made by human beings and it's not natural, that makes it interesting. ~Jennifer Bartlett 1941-
Creation is the artist's true function; where there is no creation there is not art. ~Henri Matisse 1869-1954
If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost mothering. ~Marc Chagall 1889-1985
I have never been able to carry out any work coolly. On the contrary it is done, so to speak, with my own blood. Anyone who looks at my works must be able to sense that. ~Kathe Kollwitz 1867-1945
The real artist's work is a surprise to himself. ~Robert Henri 1865-1929
The artist has only to remain true to his dream and it will possess his work in such a manner that it will resemble the work of no other man. ~Albert Pinkham Ryder 1847-1917
Imagination makes you see all sorts of things. ~Georgia O'Keefee 1887-1986
Between beauty of expression and power of expression there is a difference of function. The first aims at pleasing the senses, the second has a spiritual vitality which for me is more moving and goes deeper than the sense. ~Henry Moore 1898-1986
I go to my studio every day. Some days the work comes easily. Other days nothing happens. Yet on the good days the inspiration is only an accumulation of all the other days, the non-productive ones. ~Beverly Pepper 1924-
Inspiration is indispensable to my work, but it is hard to come by. It is there or it is not - it is a gift of the gods. ~Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010
'Til tomorrow - may the gods gift you with creative ideas and the energy it takes to manifest them today (and every day).
~Alex
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