Life, Artist and Abstract Art:
Thoughts of a Writer on Watercolour Painting
"My description of painting is that one
is looking for something. I think all creative
work is like that. In music you sound a note.
That leads to the next note. One thing
determines the next. What it comes down to,
philosophically, is that you live from moment
to moment. In doing so each moment
determines the next.You should not be
five steps ahead, only the very next one
and if you can keep to that then
you're always all right."
"That's the definition in my mind of an artist,
that he is only a man who rearranges things.
Arthur Rimbaud said, 'No man ever created
anything.' Man is not a creator. All man
does is turn things about, rearrange things,
that's all. That's creation as far as man goes."
"When you put your mind to such a simple,
innocent thing, for example,as making a
water color, you lose some of the anguish
which derives from being a member of a
world gone mad. Whether you paint flowers,
stars, horses or angels you acquire
respect and admiration for all the elements
which go to make up our universe.
"The question which emerges with every
work of art that is tamed out is:
'Is there more to what we see than meets
the eye?' And the answer is always yes.
In the humblest object we can find what we
seek-beauty, truth, reality, divinity.
The artist does not create these attributes,
he discovers them in the process of painting."
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