n a successful painting everything is integral – all the parts belong to the whole. If you remove an aspect or element you are removing its wholeness.
Richard Diebenkorn

Painting is an extension of man's means of communication. As such, it's pure, difficult, and wonderful.

reativity is that marvellous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.
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Antony Gormley
Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do.. making life flow more easily.. but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction.. they are completely different.

The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.
Albert Einstein

Pro Hart's art is like MacDonald's - an invented product that no one needs.
It's got to be said that they're the ugliest things you've ever seen.  They are visual pollutants.
They reflect the averaging of Australia that has become so much part of John Howard's era.
We have sunk to such a low sate of self-esteem that people have been celebrating the fact that he made a s---load of money from paintings that are totally unworthy.
Now Ken Done has come out in support of Pro Hart, which is the blind defending the bland.
Ray Hughes, leading Sydney art dealer,
as reported by the Sun-Herald 9/4/06

Art,its definitions are legion, its meanings multitudinous, its importance often debated.  But amid the many contradictory definitions of art, one has always stood the test of time, from the Upanishads in the East, to Michelangelo in the West: art is the perception and depiction of the sublime, the transcendent, the beautiful, the spiritual.
Art is a window to The Infinite, and opening to the goddess, a portal through which you and I, with the help of the artist, may discover depths and heights of our soul undreamed of by the vulgar world. Art is the eye of the spirit, through which the sublime can reach down to us, and we up to it, and be transformed, transfigured in the process.
Art, at its best, is the representation of your very own soul, a reminder of who and what you truly are and therefore can become."
Ken Wilber

fiber work

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. — Scott Adams

The human expression finds their way through varied forms of art and cultural activities. The art and culture of Nigeria too represents the vividness of Nigerian lifestyle coupled together with a glorious history of the past to bank upon. One of the major aspects of Nigerian art and culture lies in the fact that they draw their inspiration from the rural traditional folk heritage of the region

The child is really an artist, and the artist should be like a child, but he should not stay a child. He must become an artist. That means he cannot permit himself to become sentimental or something like that. He must know what he is doing" - Hans Hofmann, (1880 - 1966)

There is no substitute for feeling the stone, the metal, the plaster, or the wood in the hand; to feel its weight; to feel its texture; to struggle with it in the world rather than in the mind alone. (William M. Dupree)

afrikas rebirth of kraftmanship

two out in the open

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one step two foward.............

blowing hot and cold