Inspiration

“Will,” I said, “let’s draw clovers and stars.”
“No, mother” he replied. “We must get close to the work. Climb on top of it if we can. Bang it with our instruments . . .and see what the paper and the crayons reveal to us.”
Stephanie & Will (3/18/17)

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“When I go to paint I should obey the painting, not my wishes for the painting.”
Billy Childish

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“In order to paint one has to go by the way one does not know. Art is like turning corners; one never knows what is around the corner until one has made the turn.”
Milton Avery

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“Everything transitory is only a simile. What we see is but a suggestion, a possibility, a makeshift. True reality lies invisible underneath.”
Paul Klee

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“ . . . we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.”
II Corinthians 4:8

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"Before me it is beautiful, I wander about,

  I—beautiful—wander about

Behind me it is beautiful, I wander about,

  I—beautiful—wander about

Below me it is beautiful, I wander about,

  I—beautiful—wander about

Above me it is beautiful, I wander about,

  I—beautiful—wander about

All around me it is beautiful, I wander about,

  I—beautiful—wander about."

Navajo Blessingway ceremony