"What is constant in art is the artist's description of himself and his
environment.  All that changes comes under the idea of form. It
represents what one grasps of the new and hurls it into the past.
Significant form is what lies outside the periphery of the known.  An
imaginative act is that which is capable of extending the periphery of the known till it
includes the intuitively felt object that lies outside it."
Jack Tworkov

"The good picture--No one wonders at more than the one that created it.  Made...with an inborn instinct....in which time begets an awareness....and these periods of awareness are....The...red letter....days in the creator's life".           John Marin

"Beauty is in the eye (I AM) of the beholder".
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford    The Dutchess


One must first see and appreciate one's own true beauty to really see the beauty that abounds all around.
C. Harrison

"No man has ever done anything creatively worthwhile without the capacity to love.  No artist can create without it.  It is his whole motivation, and as such the love comes first not the artist....Man is not big enough to go it alone.  To attempt to do so he must kill love, the very thing and the only thing that can bring him to fullfillment.  By the blind determination to create, he kills creation.  Creation belongs to the warm heart with the capacity for contentment and in acknowledgment of the irrevocable laws of nature."
Louis Bouche

" Art is the articulation of Man's intellectual, spiritual, emotional and aesthetic impulses in relation to life, as experience.  I paint not what I see, but what I feel, not what I think, but rather what I am.  It is not for art to hold a mirror to nature(to freeze a moment out of time) but rather to capture an impulse and sustain it into all eternity.
 The dimension that lies beyond the measurable pictorial, is perhaps the all important one.  There is for me, a "magic" in art, a strange, deeply moving force which makes itself felt but cannot be analyzed.  It is in Beethoven and Brahms, in El Greco and Rembrandt--and in the great cathedrals of Europe.  I do believe, that in the final analysis, it is this dimension that constitutes for us our criterion of judgement."              Samuel M. Adler
                                                

"Art is not just a language.  It is more a process of osmosis of the tangible inner feelings of the artist to the inner feelings of the observer.  It is the most direct means of communication of the hopes, ideals and dignity of mankind.  Giotto, Piero della Francesca, Uccello,Brueghel,Cezanne,Seurat and others are reassuring lights in the darkness of the wilderness."        Michael Frary

"Painting is subject to human and not scientific laws, and art is not a great highway leading to utopias of style but rather documents of the most human need to contact other human beings in a way that is unique to art."
Fritz Bultman

I am truly inspired by the words of other artists, they say what I feel and cannot put into words.  I want to share some of these words of artists with you. 

"There are idea painters and there are those who think and feel in paint....what intrigues and engages me is to captivate the sensual within a pointed aesthetic...two contrary elements, one to excite and the other to cool. The duality releases the need for thinking and feeling."    Paul Burlin
                                                                                

I am adding a new landscape painting on my website, the title is Hush.  This is a companion painting to The Silent Forest.  This is definately a wonderful memory of my childhood, playing for hours in the quiet of the deep forest.

I just finished the painting of the horse head nebula and I am adding it to my website, it was really tricky trying to photograph it.  I hope that the photo is alright, the color changes in the painting are very subtle so I don't want to lose the depth.  I am enjoying painting this series so much, my next cosmic painting will be much larger, so that will be a challenge for me.