I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it.
Source: ronulicny
Sure, I can talk like you, but I choose not to. It’s like art, you know? Picasso had to prove to the world that he can paint the right way, before he goes putting both eyes on one side of a face, and noses stickin’ outta kneecaps and stuff. See, if you paint wrong because that’s the best you can do, you just a chump. But you do it because you want to? Then you’re an artist.
Source: freudianfuckup
An artist cannot fail. It is a success to be one.
Source: kleycreative
“Art is not delivered like the morning paper; it has to be stolen from Mount Olympus.”
~Wayne Thiebaud
Source: theartofman.net
Some people’s faces look bare without a moustache.
Source: eatsleepdraw
As an artist I feel that you’re always finding yourself in the midst of other people’s problems. It’s as though by vowing to explore other perspectives with your creations, people see that as beacon. I don’t know what kind of beacon, perhaps one of hope, or perhaps the only light who’s fingers caress a never-ending expanse of darkness. Whatever it is, they come to me. They come in all ways, with bleeding hearts, and laden confessions, ready to share the weight of their world with whoever is kind enough to bear it. I suppose as an artist you’re not just the creator of alternate realities, or the dreamer of dreams, but the one left to the mending of the current reality. All artists are healers, doctors, and psychiatrists. You either accept that from the beginning or you find a new profession. You must accept that it is the role of art and the artist to bear the weight of the world.
Greeting You is always New (by ballasiotes)
Source: Flickr / ballasiotes
Martin Klimas - What Music Looks Like, 2011
“Like a 3-D take on Jackson Pollock, the latest work by Klimas begins with splatters of paint positioned on a scrim over the diaphragm of a speaker. Then the volume is turned up. For each image, Klimas selects music—typically something dynamic and percussive, like Stockhausen, Miles Davis or Kraftwerk—and the vibration of the speaker sends the paint aloft in patterns that reveal themselves through the lens of his camera.”
Top, L-R:
1. Miles Davis
2. Paul Hindemith
3. Pink Floyd
4. Kraftwerk
5. Charlie Parker
6. Grace Jones
7. J.S. Bach
Source: alecshao
