Inspiration and Devotional

“Your wall of difficulty is where the excitement starts”  Sam Scott

“…where the tangible and the mythical become the same”   Edward Abbey

” I don’t know what you do when you start but I clean my desk. I make a lot of stupid appointments that I make sound important. Avoidance, delay, denial. I’m always scared that I’m not going to know what to do. It’s a terrifying moment. And then when I start I’m always amazed… ‘Oh that wasn’t so bad’.”    Frank Gehry 

 ” I have emptied myself of knowledge of facts. Facts have the habit of being proven wrong”    Agnes Martin 

“The reason for reasons is always changing”  Louis Menard 

  ”What counts here….first and last… is not so called knowledge of so called facts, but vision….seeing. What counts is not the what but the how.”  Joseph Albers

“Using paint as paint is different from using paint to paint a picture” John Marin

 ” If you really want to hurt your parents and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly is a way  to make your soul grow for heavens sake.”  Kurt Vonnegut

 ” Just put down a color the paper will like, a color that looks alright in itself. If the paper likes it, it doesn’t matter if it’s not a transcript from nature.”  John Marin  

” All profoundly original work looks ugly at first”  C. Greenberg

“If you really want to hurt your parents and you don’t have the nerve to be gay, then the least you can do is go into the arts. I’m not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable….it is a way to make your soul grow for heavens’s sake.   Kurt Vonnegut