The Mystery of Yourself

"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"