“Once you realize that the world is your own projection, you are free of it. You need not free yourself of a world that does not exist, except in your own imagination! However is the picture, beautiful or ugly, you are painting it and you are not bound by it. Realize that there is nobody to force it on you, that it is due to the habit of taking the imaginary to be real. See the imaginary as imaginary and be free of fear.” WorldNeedsDoeRealBeautifulForceFearRealizingImaginationPaintingHabitBoundsUglyDuesBeing RealImaginaryProjectionFree Yourself Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“I think that's such an important message, especially for younger women, to know, 'I don't have to come out of the womb painting like Frida Kahlo. My very first thing that I make isn't going to be an around-the-world sensation.' You have to paint a hundred really ugly, barfy, diarrhea paintings before you come up with that one where you start to really get into your groove.” ThinkingKnowsWorldFirstsImportantPaintingMessagesHundredPaintCome UpUglyAround The WorldSensationsWombGrooveDiarrheaFrida Author:Kathleen Hanna
“I say that in narrative paintings one should mingle direct contraries close by, because they produce strong contrasts with one another, and all the more so when they are very close together; that is, the ugly next to the beautiful, the big to the small, the old to the young, the strong to the weak; in this way you will vary as much as possible and close by.” WayShouldBigsTogetherBeautifulYoungNextStrongProducePaintingDirectWeakUglyContraryNarrativeContrastVary Author:Leonardo da Vinci