Every canvas is a journey all its own.
Helen FrankenthalerRead
I don't start with a color order, but find the colors as I go.
Interpretation
Creativity often involves exploration rather than a strict plan.
This quote by Helen Frankenthaler reflects the idea that artistic creation is a journey of discovery. Rather than adhering to a pre-defined set of colors or a strict order, the artist embraces spontaneity and allows inspiration to guide the choice of colors, suggesting that creativity can thrive in flexibility and exploration.
In practice
During an art workshop, to encourage participants to experiment with colors.
Every canvas is a journey all its own.
There are many accidents that are nothing but accidents-and forget it. But there are some that were brought about only because you are the person you are... you have the wherewithal, intelligence, and energy to recognize it and do something with it.
We would sift through every inch of what it was that worked, or if it didn't, and wonder what was effective in it, in terms of paint, the subject matter, the size, the drawing.
What concerns me when I work, is not whether the picture is a landscape, or whether it's pastoral, or whether somebody will see a sunset in it. What concerns me is - did I make a beautiful picture?
Art has a will of its own. It has nothing to do with the taste of the moment or what's expected of you. That's a formula for dead art, or fashionable art.
I don't resent being a female painter. I don't exploit it. I paint.
Dress designing, incidentally, is to me not a profession but an art.
I don't need to write comics for a living. I have movies and TV for that. I write comics for one reason and one reason only: I love comics. I love the form, the structure, the storytelling process, I love everything about it.
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.
I think what a lot of action movies lose these days, especially the ones that deal with fantasy, is you stop caring at some point because you've lost human scale.
Dialogue should simply be a sound among other sounds, just something that comes out of the mouths of people whose eyes tell the story in visual terms.
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