SHOWCASE OF PAINTINGS I OWN

Naturally, the woman and womanhood are a continual theme in the work.
“A woman gives so much of herself and still has so much more to give to this universe. I suppose its as they say to whom much is given much is expected …” Clare.

When away from the easel these thoughts filter into my mind...

I am full of silences shouting through my mind.

A glimpse of my eye caught in the mirror, my smile thickens, as voices change from sweet melodies to serious banter.

I am entranced by the voices, their words scourging through my veins, my fingers coiling like ancient roots around the steering wheel.

And I bite through the bitterness, praying for sweet respite, but the air is full of the rotten fruit, the trash left at the door and trailed back in by unwanted visitors who can’t be turned away.

Messages of harmful hope feel smooth as a razor, and I am alone in the world, hidden in dreams with the noise spreading through my mind and into numbness.

They are home in bed, in sheets of cotton, like a Sunday morning with empty prospects and I swerve on the road like a young kid in his red racing car.

Again I’m bombarded by billboards, because I won’t be there today, and tomorrow has yet to come-- Anon

“The goal of art was the vital expression of self. ”- Alfred Stieqlitz

 

“It is not so much about telling time anymore. You have the time all around you, in your car, on your computer, at your office. It is about self-expression. ”- Albert Bensoussan

 

“To some individuals, playing with gender identity and roles is as much about fun and self-expression as anything. There's a kind of tongue-in-cheek aspect to it, ... as well as a celebration of oneself.”- Caitlin Ryan

 

“Some people have felt like they are the only ones in their family with no talent. This is an artistic, beautiful form of self-expression, and that feeds them. ”- Debbie Mock

 

“Success in any endeavor depends on the degree to which it is an expression of your true self. ”- Ralph Marston

 

“Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures. ” – Henry Ward Beecher

 

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.” – Pablo Picasso

 

“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself.”- Abraham Maslow

 

“One reassuring thing about modern art is that things can't be as bad as they are painted.”- Unknown

“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint you can on it.”- Danny Kaye

 

“Everyone wants to understand painting. Why is there no attempt to understand the song of the birds?” – Picasso Pablo

 

“Are we to paint what's on the face, what's inside the face, or what's behind it?”- Pablo Picasso

 

“The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do?”- Pablo Picasso

 

“One never knows what one is going to do. One starts a painting and then it becomes something quite different.”- Pablo Picasso

 

“I don't own any of my own paintings because a Picasso original costs several thousand dollars -- it's a luxury I can't afford.”- Pablo Picasso

 

“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me.”- Henri Matisse

 

“The only valid thing in art is the one thing that cannot be explained, to explain away the mystery of a great painting would do irreplaceable harm, for whenever you explain or define something you substitute the explanation or the definition for the.”- Henri Matisse

“There is nothing more difficult for a truly creative painter than to paint a rose, because before he can do so he has first to forget all the roses that were ever painted.”- Henri Matisse

 

“I have ... a terrible need ... shall I say the word? ... of religion. Then I go out at night and paint the stars.”- Vincent Van Gogh

 

“I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.”- Vincent Van Gogh

 

“I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.”- Vincent Van Gogh

 

“Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.” – Vincent Van Gogh

 

“In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.”- Pierre-Auguste Renoir

 

“A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.”- Leonardo Da Vinci

 

“A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.”- Michelangelo

 

“I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.”- Vincent Van Gogh

 

“Art is a jealous mistress, and, if a man have a genius for painting, poetry, music, architecture, or philosophy, he makes a bad husband, and an ill provider, and should be wise in season, and not fetter himself with duties which will embitter his day.”- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

“There are certain things in which mediocrity is not to be endured, such as poetry, music, painting, public speaking.”- Jean de la Bruyere

 

“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.”- Simonides