“Enjoy yourself as much as you can, have as many diversions as you can, and remember that what people demand in art nowadays is something very much alive, with strong colour and great intensity. So intensify your own health and strength and life a little; that is the best study.”
Vincent Van Gogh, in a letter to his youngest sister Wilhelmina (via Mason Currey)
Remember the other day when I thought Auri might be worn out from a busy day and go to bed on time? Well, this was what she did instead.
I have had my eye on this, by Jane Glue, for a while, and I finally decided to buy myself it to mark the end of my maternity leave. It arrived this morning, and I couldn’t love it more.
No longer producing work that might suggest an alternative to established tradition, it is at this point that their work is no longer art and they no longer artists. There might be a great degree of craft involved, a great degree of skill involved, but craft, skill, and art are not one and the same. To be an artist is to be revolutionary.
Ganzeer, 22nd December 2022