“The art that I make and that I see others make confirms the miracle of being alive. Almost every day I live in a state of exaltation. The art of painting is to me sacred. It is central to all the other visual arts. This art is in a constant state of renewal.” ArtStatesAlivePaintingArt IsMiracleSacredConstantVisualsRenewalVisual ArtExaltation Author:Joseph Plaskett
“Look upon paintings with eyes of mystery rather than judgement. Support the need to enter into the sacred space beyond evaluation.” NeedsLooksEyeSpaceSupportMysteryPaintingSacredJudgementLook UpEvaluationSacred Space Book:Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Source: Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous
“All my life I have painted pictures so that certain people would drop dead when they looked at them, but I have not succeeded yet. The worst painting cant hurt you, but a bad driver can kill you, a bad judge can send you to the chair, a bad politician can ruin an entire country, That is why even a bad painting is sacred.” PeopleCountryCertainHurtWorstPaintingJudgingPoliticianSacredRuinsChairsDriversCant Author:Man Ray
“I think, at the L.A. County Museum of Art, I saw my first example of Kerry James Marshall, who had a very sort of heroic, oversized painting of black men in a barbershop. But it was painted on the same level and with the same urgency that you would see in a grand-scale [Anthony] van Dyck or [Diego] Velazquez. The composition was classically informed; the painting technique was masterful. And it was something that really inspired me because, you know, these were images of young, black men in painting on the museum walls of one of the more sanctified and sacred institutions in Los Angeles.” ThinkingKnowsMenFirstsArtYoungBlackLevelsSawsExamplePaintingWallInstitutionsSacredInspiredTechniqueScalesLos AngelesMuseumsHeroicCompositionVansUrgencyCountyBarbershop Author:Kehinde Wiley