Inspirational Quotes

A couple of quotes that resonate with my art.

The first is so important to me and it can be difficult to achieve. I take it to mean keeping loose and free, allowing my joy of experimental painting to come through, to also connect emotionally with the piece I’m painting…. not always easy to do :)

"Too much reality in a picture is always a disappointment to the imaginative soul. We love suggestion and not hard facts.A picture should be music in form and color, with the subject matter the vehicle. We must not imitate the externals of nature with so much fidelity that the picture fails to evoke that wonderful teasing recurrence of emotion that marks the contemplation of a work of art." - John F. Carlson... pg. 118

'Carlson's Guide to Landscape Painting'

And the second one…

“I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don’t in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are much better than I could make it do “

Francis Bacon 1963