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| The Red Madras Headress 1907, O/C 99.4 x 80.5 cm Henri Matisse Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA |
Looking for an anchor to tie your art to? You won't find it here, partner. Instead, I bring you ambiguity.
Artist's Quotes
"There is in every artist’s studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist’s discipline prevailed against his imagination." Robert Brault.
"But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: 'It's clever, but is it Art?'" Rudyard Kipling.
"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger." Rainer Maria Rilke.
"Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue." Henri Matisse.
"Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did." George Carlin.
"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art." Augustus Saint-Gaudens.
"An artist's career always begins tomorrow." James McNeill Whistler.
"If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now." Keith Urban.
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Please accept the following document, which is a copy of these quotes on ambiguity, as a gift from me. Right click to open the image in a new folder, and then save and print.
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10 comments:
"Assume ambiguity" is the advice my Psychoanalytic supervisor gave me about my clients when I was in practice. People would come for therapy, saying that they wanted to change (a behavior, a situation, ...)but they also wanted to NOT change. Ambivalence. We're full of it.
Thanks for the quotes. I think I like the first Matisse quote the best, but I'm going to think more about them. I'm ambivalent about it, I guess.
Thanks for these Casey - and for spoon-feeding us with the text to save!
I feel much like Paul Klee - painting often does keep one from crying.
Hi, carol. I love that term spoonfeeding - it reminds me of my days in the army. I want to put up docs for all of my quote posts - maybe I'll put them on the tabs below the banner.
It was hard to get the doc right. In the end, I had to make them into a pdf, then dragged into google documents, then save as an image, then uploaded to blogger.
I like the Paul Klee quote the best, too.
That's a good story, Kvan. I hate ambiguity in life, but am learning the place it has in art making. Probably why I put this together, and tried to include some tangents as well.
Can ambiguity have tangents?
Thanks so much for the quotes.
I guess for me it works this way: AT THE MOMENT!!! I like Keith Urban's quote best. But tomorrow?? We will see!
And Klee was right: Painting definitely helps.
Thanks for commenting, Karin. Degas said something similar to Keith Urban, but I think the singer has said it best.
Great quotes and I can't pick a favorite. I printed a copy; thank you.
Welcome, Hallie.
Wonderful selection.
Thanks, Jean.
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