When my eyes become dim with age and I shall not be able to see the world around me, I can paint non-objective abstractions and abstract non-objections.-- Boris Artzybasheff
So this is the important truth: to make a mark on a canvas is to open the door of possibility of being moved profoundly and to move others. That is what painting is all about. That is the heart and soul of painting.
“The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider’s web.” Pablo Picasso
So this is the important truth: to make a mark on a canvas is to open the door of possibility of being moved profoundly and to move others. That is what painting is all about. That is the heart and soul of painting.