True or False?

There is no character, there are just black marks on a white page – it is a line of dialogue.
David Mamet

Ferocious

I paint my own reality. The only thing I know is that I paint because I need to, and I paint whatever passes through my head without any other consideration.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

I hope the leaving is joyful and I hope never to return.

Frida Kahlo

A Job Well Done

If a man is called to be a streetsweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great streetsweeper who did his job well. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Courageous

There is a vitality, a life force, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique, and if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium; and be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is, not how it compares with other expression. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep open and aware directly to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. No artist is pleased. There is no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.

(Martha Graham)

The Visionary

Our dream life is no less important than our waking life, especially for the artist.
(Federico Fellini)

A Really Easy Way

Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism.
Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it.
(Noam Chomsky)

Belief

Genius is one percent inspiration,
And ninety-nine percent perspiration.
-Thomas Edison-

Detail

"God is in the details" (Ludwig Mies van der Rohe)

Reality

Picasso said "Everything you can imagine is real."

"What he is"

Jackson Pollock once said "Every good painter paints what he is."

In the beginning there was Radiohead

I thought I would start with something that seems to be a tireless source of inspiration...
It begins....
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