My current paintings and drawings are inspired by African American Spirituals. By transforming the forms in my art work I hope to anticipate, as spirituals often do, the transfiguration of the world. 

 

Below are some of my favorite quotes about the nature of art:

 

For all the arts, without exception, are representations or likenesses of a model; which does not mean that they are such as to tell us what the model looks like, which would be impossible seeing that the forms of traditional art are typically imitative of invisible things, which have no looks, but that they are such adequate analogies as to be able to remind us, i.e., put us in mind again, of their archetypes. 

  xcvxcvbAnanda K. Coomaraswamy

 

 

O eloquence, so much the more terrible as it is so unadorned; and as it is so genuine, so much the more powerful: O truly, an axe hewing the rock! 

 asdfasdaSt. Augustine

 

 

Out of the anxiety, and the double awareness that we are finite and that we belong to infinity from which we are excluded, the urge arises to express the essential unity of that which we are in symbols which are religious and artistic.

 asdfasdfPaul Tillich

 

 

He who does not see more vividly and clearly than this perishing mortal eye can see, does not see creatively at all.

 asdfasd fWilliam Blake

 

 

Let us tell them what these works of art are about and not merely tell them things about these works of art. Let us tell them the painful truth, that most of these works of art are about God, whom we never mention in polite society. Let us admit that if we are to offer an education in agreement with the innermost nature and eloquence of the exhibits themselves, that this will not be an education in sensibility, but an education in philosophy, in Plato’s and Aristotle’s sense of the word, for whom it means ontology and theology and the map of life, and a wisdom to be applied to everyday matters. Let us recognize that nothing will have been accomplished unless men’s lives are affected and their values changed by what we have to show.

  zxczxcvAnanda K. Coomaraswamy

 

 

asdasdfdsArt is the lie that tells the truth.

asdfasdfa Pablo Picasso