mid-march

Every true genius is bound to be naive. -Frederich Schiller

There is no such thing as chance; and what seems to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny. -Friedrich Schiller

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. -Arthur Schopenhauer

Ouch.  I hope these quotes don't make me out as portraying  myself as something I am not.  I just like them today.  They match some feeling.

Art is the daughter of freedom. -Friedrich Schiller

It's just a stone's throw

I'm intact and I don't give a damn.  -Arthur Rimbaud

It just seems that these are a mess.  It happens sometimes.  You can play a piece of music perfectly, you've played it all your life.  and then one day after a couple of years when you haven't played it, you scramble to try and remember it at all.

Things go gablooey.  The paint brushes are not the right size, the colors are too subtle, the concept disappears before you can get it down on paper.  Then why show them?

Well, why not.  There's always a chance they don't meet my expectations, but that they meet yours, and even if not, it's the last show this piece will ever have...

I've produced them so there. Maybe they will go straight to video, not even get a release notice.  Or they will be like all the crummy albums that marked the middle of his career, or all the terrible books he wrote after those three brilliant beginning novels.

Actually they will all look a bunch better when my friend gets here and photographs them.

Genius is the recovery of childhood at will. -Arthur Rimbaud

in martian

The only word in the Martian language is written phonetically: Koh-ray-kh-kuh-ko-kex.  It means whatever you want it to mean. -Blaise Cendrars

Occasionally, I get one done and I go like I did to the one above, well there is me and my sisters on the dock down at the lake.  And I don't even know why...

My poor life.  This shawl frayed on strongboxes full of gold and I walk along with dream and smoke and the only flame in the universe. -Blaise Cendrars

An angel has no memory. -Terry Southern

It's funny I always think of this type of painting as my medieval  type of work.

Rob

The world is awash in bright, shiny nonsense.  Every day we wade through a glare of misinformation and lazy delusions and irrelevant data.  It can be hard to locate the few specific insights that are actually useful and stimulating.  That's the bad news, Capricorn.  Here's the good news:  You now have an enhanced ability to ferret out nuggets of data that can actually empower you.  You are a magnet for the invigorating truths you really need most.  -Rob Breshney

Well I don't know that I've discovered any except an old old one.  Just do what always attracts you.

It always gets you back on track, back on the search for what may be meaningful.  And that is always the best thing.

It is always frustrating, always encumbering to look at any other artists.  Because I immediately want to do exactly whatever they are doing.  I want to paint not like that but THAT exactly and when I've done the thousands of things they have done, then I will move on...

Move on that is to the next artist.  and then the next etc. et. al. 

all sorts of colors

In the 1840s society wags razzed the aging William Turner, oracle titan-painter of the sublime, alleging that 'Turner's reputation dies, dolphin-like, all sorts of colors. -Graham Burnett

I certainly gazed in disbelief at the Turner's I've seen, almost always reproductions, and wondered at different times, what is this, searching for a title, some clue.  And even then not getting it.

And now of course I would want nothing better than to be able to paint like that.  Above is my sunrise over the lake.

Painting seems to me to be be often mystical, arranged and made by others for other types of people.

Mine seem obvious.  Made for me I guess.   And for some few select others.

It must be interesting to look. and to see. these differing things that show up.  It is for me.