The Creative Process

Art is the process of unlearning and rethinking to find truths, poetry, and meaning in our lives.  Contrary to the old adage “Practice makes perfect” I find that practice simply makes permanent. Looking again at the familiar, shunning the traditional, and finding personal tools to unlock unique and personal visual communication is the creative process. It is neither easy nor innate however this process can be learned.  This class is another step toward finding truth, meaning, and poetry in our lives.  Welcome to the journey.

The attitude that nature is chaotic and that the artist puts order into it is a very absurd point of view, I think. All that we can hope for is to put some order into ourselves.
::: Willem de Kooning :::

Quotables

Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist.
::: Edward Hopper :::

The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial.. his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
::: George Baselitz :::

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.
::: Henry Moore :::

Art is an outlet toward regions which are not ruled by time and space.
::: Marcel Duchamp :::

The progression of a painter's work as it travels in time from point to point, will be toward clarity.. toward the elimination of all obstacles between the painter and the idea.. and theidea and the observer.. To achieve this clarity is inevitably to be understood.
::: Mark Rothko :::

The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real. - Lucian Freud