G. Steve Journal

So Clever

Came across this pithy quote that describes most artist's statements:

“I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.”                                                                                                                     ― Oscar Wilde

Thanks Goodreads

Sharing

What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing: you wouldn’t be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought. I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense that we are the same, we are one.
                                                                                                                            David Hockney

 

See

 

“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”

                                        Anais Nin

 

You Know...

In a recent interview discussing her new novel about a photographer, author Anna Quindlen made this observation about the creative process:

That's the dangerous game of producing art; that, especially in this information age, there's a sense that taste is not what you bring to the table, taste is what other people tell you it is, whether they're critics or sales figures or the like. And I think that when you produce any kind of art, there has to be that moment when you know that it's good.