You must give birth to your images – The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens. — Rainer Maria Rilke
“One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.” — Friedrich Nietzsche
“For each age is a dream that is dying,
Or one that is coming to birth.”
— Arthur William Edgar O’Shaughnessy
“There’s no reality except the one contained within us. That’s why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself.”
— Hermann Hesse
“I cannot promise very much.
I give you the images I know.
Lie still with me and watch.
We laugh and we touch.
I promise you love. Time will not take that away.”
— Anne Sexton
“I will not be just a tourist in the world of images, just watching images passing by which I cannot live in, make love to, possess as permanent sources of joy and ecstasy.” — Anais Nin
A man’s work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened. ~Albert Camus
I like the idea of giving birth to images – I seem to be finding here that I am posting my initial art, then waiting a while and making changes to it and reposting the image. I don’t know if I’ll continue this format or not, but it’s interesting that I’m creating the images and then reworking them. I do that quite a bit when I paint, which his one reason watercolor was so difficult for me until I started accepting that gouache is ok. I may not be a purely transparent artist, but it’s a goal to work towards. When I get good enough to not need gouache, maybe I’ll consider myself a good watercolor artist.
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