"As children we were taught how to do everything: how to read, how to study, how to be polite. We have been
bombarded with the
'right way' to do things. So now we are approaching art and we think we should know how to do it. Yet art is the only thing that we should
not know how to do!
Art is the place not to know.
To
create is to move into the
unknown - to move into the
mystery of yourself, to have feeling, to awaken buried perceptions, to be alive and free
without worrying about the result. But the mind is conditioned to think it wants a nice painting, a nice tree, beautiful scenery. No! Maybe you want monsters.
Maybe you want
chaos, maybe you want a
mess.
Maybe
it will feel really good
to paint
an ugly painting.
Maybe that would
open your being much more than a masterpiece."
Michèle Cassou
"Life, Paint, and Passion"