Alex Alvis Art

Inspiration Sunday

Welcome to Inspiration Sunday.  I hope you have been enjoying the weekend.
 
I have some quotes from all different kinds of artists for you today.  Some you may not have heard of so I have some links attached to their names, so if you have any further interest.
 
I hope this will give you some inspiration for this coming week!

It takes a certain maturity of mind to accept that nature works as steadily in rust as in rose petals. ~Esther Warner Dendel

I don't express myself in my paintings.  I express my not-self.  ~Mark Rothko

Mark Rothko Room - Tate Modern

I have discovered that the unasked-for accident can be the salvation of what you are doing.  ~Stephen De Staebler 

Stephen De Staebler - Winged Victory

The further I go, the sorrier I am about how little I know:  it is this that bothers me the most.  ~Claude Monet

I have never liked the middle ground - the most boring place in the world.  ~Louise Nevelson

Louise Nevelson - Shadows and Flags - NYC 1977

Only just now awakening after years of materialism, our soul is still infected with the despair born of unbelief, of lack of purpose and aim.  ~Wassily Kandinsky

Wassily Kandinsky - Flood Improvisation

Something awful happens to a person who grows up as a creative kid and suddenly find no creative outlet as an adult.  ~Judy Blume

Art thaws even the frozen, darkened soul, opening it to lofty spiritual experience.  ~Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I begin to feel an enormous need to become savage and to create a new world.  ~Paul Gauguin

Paul Gauguin - Washerwomen at Roubine du Roi

The artist himself may not think he is religious, but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.  ~Emily Carr

Emily Carr - Kitwancool

Tomorrow I will continue along with my research of each artist listed as having been in the WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution show in 2007 and I am now to the artists on the list who's last names begin with the letter "B".

I hope you enjoy the last few hours of your weekend.

'Til tomorrow!

~Alex

Artist Inspiration Sunday

Hello.  Happy Sunday! 

To help you get started every week!  Some inspiration to get you going creating right away on Monday.  I need it and SO DO YOU!  (Well, maybe)  

Every Sunday I will be sharing a page from a little book I have called Artist to Artist Inspiration and Advice from Artists Past and Present compiled by Clint Brown.

Quotes on Being an Artist

To be an artist is to believe in life.
-Henry Moore

The object, which is back of every true work of art, is the attainment of a state of boing; a state of high functioning, a more than ordinary moment of existence.
-Robert Henri

If a man devotes himself to art, much evil is avoided that happens otherwise if one is idle.
-Albrecht Durer

It's a quality of the young to simplify matters.  Later a sense of nuance becomes increasingly exaggerated.  As one gets older one sees many more paths that could be taken.  Artists sense within their won work that kind of swelling of possibilities, which may seem a freedom or a confusion.
-Jasper Johns

The artists is the man who makes life more interesting or beautiful, more understandable or mysterious, or probably, in the best sense, more wonderful.  His trade is to deal with illimitable experience.  It is therefore only of importance for the artist to discover whether he be an artists, and it is for society to discover what return it can make of its artist.
-George Bellows

An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that the artist begins with reality and ends with art:  the converse is true- to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art and through it arrives at reality.
-Robert Motherwell

Every good artist paints what he is.
-Jackson Pollock

I don't demand that all work be a masterpiece.  I think what I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living.  It reflects me and I reflect it.
-Louise Nevelson

"I started working in oils because I was inspired by the rich glow of sunlight passing through an amber mug of ale in London. I wanted to be able to capture that feeling in a painting..."
-Bernie Fuchs (quoted in the catalogue of his recent 50 year retrospective at the Telluride Gallery)

I'm off to continue do my best to create a beautiful day.
...and I hope you create - in your own beautiful way -
 your own beautiful day.  :)
 
~Alex