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The Keeping
"It seemed to me that composition is about grabbing the viewer's eye and keeping it there in the painting and trying to keep that eye moving around the painting and not let it escape, so that whoever's looking at the painting will start to see what's actually in the painting. That seemed to be the whole purpose of composition. To attract the eye and keep it there."
Janet Fish, Painter
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NOW!!!
"The need to win-NOW-is a need to win approval from others. As an antidote, we must learn to approve of ourselves. Showing up for the work is the win that matters."
Julia Cameron, Filmmaker, from her book The Artist's Way, A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity, 1992.
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The Difficulty
"One common complaint from many people is the difficulty which they experience in concentrating. The difficulty often is a consequence of clogging too much questionable material into the mind. Selected periods of silence produce the same purifying effect as do selected periods of abstinence from food."
Rev. Na'im Akbar, Ph.D., Psychologist, from his book The Community of Self, Revised. Fifth Printing, June 1991.
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[Indeed] Pained
"As I view the images coming from Iran that are being posted all over, I am reminded and indeed pained by the fact that a skilled visual journalist has not recorded many of these events. This situation in the hands of a truth-seeking photojournalist could be extremely powerful, and not a mere 'digital document'.”
Michele McNally, New York Times Assistant Managing Editor for Photography, on the prevalence of non-professional news photography. Published in the New York Times on June 18, 2009.
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The Choice
"Cultural values, such as music and art, still are relatively low on the scale of what makes a man worthwhile. Any man who chooses to become a musician, or an artist or a sculptor, or some other pursuit the major goal of which is not making money or conquering other men, is still looked upon as somewhat suspect."
Reuben Fine (1914- 1993), Psychologist / Chess Playing Icon
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New Horizons and Directions
"The creative process is about freedom, about exploring new horizons and directions. So you can't be creative and think you're taking a 'risk' because if a career is going to continue for any duration, somewhere there has to be a concept that challenges you, that you approach differently than what you've done previously."
Chris Jasper, member, the Isley Brothers*
*from the liner notes of the group's 1974 release Live It Up
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