Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Cats eyes. Look at them. The pupil a narrow slit, vertical through the
iris. Mysterious, intriquing.
One day, many years ago, I was relaxing in the summer sun in front of
our lovely old house. With me were our two cats, Mao and Myrtle. They
were as lazy as I was, “lolling” being the only word to describe their
movements. [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Dreams, sleeping dreams I mean, are fugitive and hard to pin down. Many
people believe that our dream experiences are real, and in the sense
that they open a path to our subconscious and the collective
subconscious, they are very important.
When I mentioned “dreamers of dreams”, I meant not sleeping dreams,
but that most vital aspect of the true [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 11, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
Of all the skills an artist may or may not have the most basic, and the
most important, is imagination.
This is the one that makes us an artist in the first place. Without it
nobody is an artist. It might even be thought not to be a skill which
can be developed, but a gift, or a god-given [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on October 2, 2004 | Leave a Comment »
“Art is skill”, the great Plato said.
This axiom has only been contested once in the history of art: in our time.
First, it was contested by the Modern school who were patently without skill. Cutting up animals and throwing paint at canvas, or painting flat squares with masking tape, piling bricks into a museum, are obviously [...]
