Touch
collage on board, 5 x 5 inches
Art is
giving yourself permission to translate life. Exactly the way you feel. See.
And hear it. Be the artist you are. Give yourself permission to speak your own
language. ~ Nayyirah
Waheed
It takes courage
to follow your fascinations, wherever they may lead. Yet, creativity demands
that you trust and stay on the path despite obstacles.
~ Gail McMeeken
Life has an
inside as well as an outside. Consumer culture directs all resources and
attention to life on the outside. What happens to the inner life? Art is never
a luxury because it stimulates and responds to the inner life. We are badly out
of balance.
I don't think
of art / creativity as a substitute for anything else. I see it as a powerful
expression of our humanity - and on the side of humanity under threat.
If we say art
is a luxury, we might as well say that being human is a luxury.
~ Jeanette
Winterson
