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The choice!

For me it´s hardly a matter of choice, for as long as I can remember I have always felt an urge to draw and paint.                   _______________________________________________


An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one.
Charles Horton Cooley

           Art is much less important than life, but what a poor life without it.
Robert Motherwell

                  The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious,                 the source of all art and science.
Albert Einstein

Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately. You rape it.
Edgar Degas

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The what and why!

As a painter, I try to make you ( you who is receptive ) see the world in a different way. Every time I paint a place, a thing or whatever it is, my purpose is to communicate to you a revealed truth, as I experience it. I am continuously refining my technique and method to reach this goal.  Why? Simply because I like the idea that art is a primitive human celebration of life. I really believe that good art has the power to elevate mankind. Just take away all good books, all good paintings, sculptures, poetry, music… or just take away the big Art of Nature and you can imagine what life would be like!? 

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If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper

Art is the signature of civilizations.
Beverly Sills

Art is a human activity which has as its purpose the transmission to others
of the highest and best feelings to which men have risen.
Leo Tolstoy

                     Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing,                        and the deification of existence.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.
Stella Adler

                 All art deals with the absurd and aims at the simple.                     Good art speaks truth, indeed is truth, perhaps the only truth.
Iris Murdoch

                Art is always and everywhere the secret confession,                          and at the same time the immortal movement of its time.
Karl Marx

Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into
nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.
Auguste Rodin

Art is meant to disturb. Science reassures.
         Georges Braque          

Art is not a thing; it is a way.
Elbert Hubbard

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The how!

I paint only what inspires me. And when doing so, I don´t copy - I mean I don´t want to produce illustrations.  I do try as honest as possible and as brave as I can to tell the story or the vision that my soul and I agreed about. To me it is a lot about intuition.

 

I seek a personal visual language to master, and there is only one way to go: practice, practice and practice. It is by trying to copy nature and by studying great art that we learn, search, find, reinvent and progress. Art is a sweet sweaty process and thank god I found out about it.


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And my aim in my life is to make pictures and drawings, as many and as well
as I can; then, at the end of my life, I hope to pass away, looking back
with love and tender regret, and thinking, 'Oh, the pictures I might have made.
Vincent Van Gogh

An artist's career always begins tomorrow.
James McNeill Whistler

Art arises when the secret vision of the artist and the manifestation of
nature agree to find new shapes.
Kahlil Gibran

Art does not reproduce what is visible; it makes things visible.
Paul Klee

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theorore Dreiser

               Art is the unceasing effort to compete with the beauty of flowers                     and never succeeding.
Mark Chagall

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who
aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might
think we're stupid.
Jules Feiffer

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

Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.
John Ruskin

              For an impressionist to paint from nature is not to paint the subject,                 but to realize sensations.
Paul Cezanne

   God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat.      He has no real style; He just goes on trying other things.
Pablo Picasso

Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso

Art is the objectification of feeling, and the subjectification of nature.
Susanne K. Langer

Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible.
Paul Klee

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

Art is when you hear a knocking from your soul - and you answer.
Star Richés

The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and
all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
Gustave Flaubert

Style is a simple way of saying complicated things.
 Jean Cocteau

 
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