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06 January, 2016

Matisse Month

Matisse Month.

 Since Henri Matisse was born on December 31st, 1869, it seems good to spend a month celebrating the old keener. Matisse was the definitive colorist, and without doubt the greatest French artist of the 20th Century. It is worth noting that Pablo Picasso said: "In the end, there is only Matisse." 



Drawing is of the spirit; color is of the senses.

I've been over forty years discovering that the queen of all colors is black.

Drawing is putting a line round an idea.

Seek the strongest color effect possible. The content is of no importance.



Creativity takes courage.

Quotes by Henri Matisse.








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01 December, 2014

Brown Sauce




"There must be no more pictures covered in brown sauce."
Edvard Munch.


A work of art must carry in itself its complete significance and impose it upon the beholder even before he can identify the subject-matter. Henri Matisse.

My technique is unreliable... Jim Morgan.

We have our arts so we won't die of truth. Friedrich Nietzsche.


I can explain the picture to you, and you will understand the explanation, but you will not understand the picture. Pablo Picasso.

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple. Woody Guthrie.


There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain. Georges Braque.


 Genius is finding the invisible link between things. Vladimir Nabokov. 


Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways. Oscar Wilde.


 Anyone who says you can't see a thought simply doesn't know art. Wynetka Ann Reynolds.


Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue. Henri Matisse.

Without...love, there can no longer be any dependable criteria of observation and therefore no longer any art. Henri Matisse.

Artwork above:
Self-Portrait (in distress), 1919 / Edvard Munch.
Munch Museum, Oslo, Norway.
Oil on canvas, 151 x 130 cm
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28 November, 2014

Steal Like An Artist


The Back of a Figurine by Matisse. 2014. 
@10" x 8" 
Pastel & Charcoal
Casey Klahn







ART THEFT!
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13 March, 2014

I...don't like it when people write about art





Everyone is wise until he speaks. Irish Proverb.

"I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art,"  Balthus.

"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning, " Benjamin Franklin.

"I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny," Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

"But often it's doubtful whether the logic of the work itself and the words used to describe it really have anything to do with each other,"  Thom Mayne.

"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale,"  D.H. Lawrence.

"Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own," Peter Anderson.

"Hear the meaning within the word,"  William Shakespeare.

"Self expression shouldn't be the goal,"  Wolf Kahn.

 
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18 October, 2013

Color Sense - Quotes

This was first posted in July, 2013.








These pages are jpegs, and may be copied and printed for your studio.  Assembled by Casey Klahn.

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22 August, 2013

Your Authority

Growth comes with struggle.  The key in art is to get it over into the subconscious, and the sooner you start just making art, the easier it will be to find expression. 

Here are some quotes on the Artist's Authority that were published here some time ago.   



You should be able to click on these documents and view them.  Save them and print them out to post in your studio.

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13 July, 2013

On Color! Quotes








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11 March, 2012

Clout Cloud

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.” Leonardo da Vinci.

“I am becoming freer. I think you can do miracles with what you have if you accept it.” Willem de Kooning.

"The authority of those who teach is often an obstacle to those who want to learn." Marcus Tullius Cicero.





“New faces have more authority than accustomed ones.” Euripides.

“I don’t want to be new anymore.” Willem de Kooning.

“There is no such thing as art...There are only artists who are favoured with a gift of balancing shapes and colours until they get it right. And, rarer still, who possess the integrity of character which never rests content with half solutions, but is ready to forgo all easy effects, all superficial success for the toil and agony of sincere work.” E. H. Gombrich.

“Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.” Janis Joplin.

“When I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.” Cezanne.

“Do it for the love of it. Fight over a prize so tawdry you'd throw out if it didn't have your name on it.” Gregory Sullivan.



“Drawing is the honest of the art. There is no possibilty of cheating. It is either good or bad.” Salvatore Dali.

“I learn as much from painters about how to write as from writers.” Ernest Hemingway.
“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.” Leonardo da Vinci.

“The great artist is the simplifier.” Vincent Van Gogh.















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10 January, 2012


          

        







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Wolf Kahn said, "Each painting has its own dignity, its own requirements."

"But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: 'It's clever, but is it Art?'" Rudyard Kipling.

"The air one sees in the paintings of the masters is not the air one breathes." Edgar Degas.






"Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?"  Groucho Marx. 



"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer.












Fauvist Forest, Casey Klahn









"To sum up, I work without a theory. I am conscious above all of the forces involved, and find myself driven forward by an idea that I can really only grasp bit by bit as it grows with the picture." Henri Matisse.



"Always do whatever's next." George Carlin.





"Information is cheap, meaning is expensive."  George Dyson.






"I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way -- things I had no words for." Georgia O’Keeffe.



"A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to." Banksy.



"Each new situation requires a new architecture." Jean Nouvel.



Pierre Bonnard said, "There is also submission to the picture."









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25 October, 2011


          

        







Art Is What?











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Wolf Kahn said, "Each painting has its own dignity, its own requirements."

"But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: 'It's clever, but is it Art?'" Rudyard Kipling.

"The air one sees in the paintings of the masters is not the air one breathes." Edgar Degas.






"Why don't you bore a hole in yourself and let the sap run out?"  Groucho Marx. 



"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." Arthur Schopenhauer.












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"To sum up, I work without a theory. I am conscious above all of the forces involved, and find myself driven forward by an idea that I can really only grasp bit by bit as it grows with the picture." Henri Matisse.



"Always do whatever's next." George Carlin.
 




"Information is cheap, meaning is expensive."  George Dyson.






"I found that I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way -- things I had no words for." Georgia O’Keeffe.



"A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to." Banksy.






"Each new situation requires a new architecture." Jean Nouvel.



Pierre Bonnard said, "There is also submission to the picture."









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10 May, 2011


          

        







Do You Mind?











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Quotes About The Mind.





George Orwell said, "There are some ideas so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them."



“Common sense is that layer of prejudice laid down prior to the age of sixteen,” Albert Einstein.



"It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours. You ought to get it out and dance on it. That would take some of the rigidity out of it,"  Mark Twain.



"Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment," Claude Monet.





"I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught," Georgia O’Keeffe.


"Never be afraid to sit awhile and think,"  Lorraine Hansberry.



"Sometimes I think and other times I am,"  Paul Valéry.



"You study, you learn, but you guard the original naïveté. It has to be within you, as desire for drink is within the drunkard or love is within the lover," Henri Matisse.



"Art has an enemy called ignorance," Ben Johnson.





"An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn't know why they choose him and he's usually too busy to wonder why," William Faulkner.













Wittgenstein
The Granger Collection, NY



"Imagine someone pointing to the place in the iris of a Rembrandt eye and saying: 'The walls in my room should be painted this color,' "  Ludwig Wittgenstein.

































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24 March, 2011


          

        







What Degas Said











Dancer
Edgar Degas




Edgar Degas weighed in on the artist's ambiguity.  The irony is that he is a consummate realist, and on the short list of historic master draftsmen.  Yet, here is the great man's admission that art is too big for him to define in simple terms.  






"I have spent all my life trying to figure out what art is all about.  If I knew, I should have done something about it long ago."  Degas.









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21 March, 2011


          

        







Quotes About Ambiguity In Art















The Red Madras Headress

1907, O/C 

99.4 x 80.5 cm

Henri Matisse

Barnes Foundation, Merion, PA 








Looking for an anchor to tie your art to?  You won't find it here, partner.  Instead, I bring you ambiguity. 










Artist's Quotes









"There is in every artist’s studio a scrap heap of discarded works in which the artist’s discipline prevailed against his imagination." Robert Brault.





"To sum up, I work without a theory. I am conscious above all of the forces involved, and find myself driven forward by an idea that I can really only grasp bit by bit as it grows with the picture." Henri Matisse. 





"I paint in order not to cry." Paul Klee. 





"But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: 'It's clever, but is it Art?'" Rudyard Kipling.

"No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger." Rainer Maria Rilke.


"Whoever wishes to devote himself to painting should begin by cutting out his own tongue." Henri Matisse.




"Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did."  George Carlin.



"What garlic is to salad, insanity is to art." Augustus Saint-Gaudens.  



"An artist's career always begins tomorrow."  James McNeill Whistler.



"One must beware of a formula good for everything, that will serve to interpret the other arts as well as reality, and that instead of creating will only produce a style, or rather a stylization." George Braque.




"If I knew what I was doing, I'd be doing it right now." Keith Urban.



"Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of, but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance." Henri Matisse.



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14 January, 2011


          

        







Courage In The Breed










Here is an essay first posted in early 2009.  Inspiration for the artist, I hope.






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I was driving to the city yesterday, past snow-clad fields, and I noticed a farm dog running like his tail was on fire. I thought to myself, "I wonder if he's...he is! " He was facing down a coyote intruding in his domain, and then I noticed that it was two coyotes.



"...courage is essential to the artist." Henri Matisse








I regarded that as an amazing display of courage by that dog. A pair of coyotes can easily defeat even a full grown deer, and the matter was simply that the dog had his range to defend and nothing was going to keep him from doing that! 


The antipathy between farm dogs and coyotes is well known, and as a matter of fact the dog's behavior was common to his breed.



What characteristics are common to your own breed? The artist is known for artistic integrity, and presenting an abundance of that is having courage.



For a review of these traits, see the following posts: Artistic Integrity and Artistic Courage - Get It!



Have you defended your artistic space lately?















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20 October, 2010


          

        







Quotes - The Artist's Ideas











Der Blaue Reiter, 1903
Wassily Kandinsky

"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else,"  Pablo Picasso.

“The artist must have something to say, for mastery over form is not his goal but rather the adapting of form to its inner meaning.” Wassily Kandinsky.

"One can say nothing about the content of a painting...It says itself, like breath without words." James Matthew Wilson.
"Truth and reality in art do not arise until you no longer understand what you are doing and are capable of, but nevertheless sense a power that grows in proportion to your resistance."  Henri Matisse.
"In art, one idea is as good as another. If one takes the idea of trembling, for instance, all of a sudden most art starts to tremble. Michelangelo starts to tremble. El Greco starts to tremble. All the Impressionists start to tremble." Willem de Kooning.
"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately,"  Saul Bellow.

"But often it's doubtful whether the logic of the work itself and the words used to describe it really have anything to do with each other,"  Thom Mayne.

“Trust your feelings entirely about color, and then, 
even if you arrive at no infallible color theory, you will at least have the credit of having your own color sense.”  John F. Carlson.
"See, don't think."  Attributed to Wolf Kahn.
"I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking." Albert Einstein.  

Kahn quote: h/t Tracy Helgeson.









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29 June, 2010


          

        







I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art.



















OTOH, Artist's Quotes

 

Everyone is wise until he speaks. Irish Proverb. 



"I refuse to confide and don't like it when people write about art,"  Balthus.



"Words may show a man's wit, but actions his meaning, " Benjamin Franklin.



"I had placed my stick on the table, as I do every evening. It had been specially made to suit my height, to enable me to walk without too much difficulty. As I was standing up, a customer called to me: 'Monsieur, don't forget your pencil.' It was very unkind, but most funny," Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.


"But often it's doubtful whether the logic of the work itself and the words used to describe it really have anything to do with each other,"  Thom Mayne.



"Never trust the artist. Trust the tale,"  D.H. Lawrence.



"Stealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own,"  Peter Anderson. 



"Hear the meaning within the word,"  William Shakespeare.



"Self expression shouldn't be the goal,"  Wolf Kahn.



 









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28 May, 2010


          

        







On The Other Hand - Artist's Quotes

















Artist's Quotes.





"I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else,"  Pablo Picasso.



"Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid,   " Jules Feiffer.



"Artists are, above all, men who want to become inhuman," Guillaume Apollinaire.

  

"Once, after finishing a picture, I thought I would  stop for awhile, take a trip, do things--the next time I thought of  this, I found five years had gone by," Willem deKooning.



"The first mistake of art is to assume that it's serious,"  Lester Bangs.



"Its hard to find the light when you're born in the dark,"  Emile Zola.



"I don't know what to do with my arms. It just  makes me feel weird and I feel like people are looking at me and that  makes me nervous,"  Tyra Banks.



"Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master,"  Leonardo da Vinci.



"Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass,"  Fran Lebowitz.





  

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Loriann Signori is treating her readers to fresh quotes that she gleaned from attending master artist Wolf Kahn's recent talk.  One thing I like about Mr. Kahn is that he doesn't play the, "I know something you don't know" game.  He generously shares his painting wisdom, and then the challenge is on your shoulders.  Paint well, my friends!








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26 April, 2010


          

        







Artist's Quotes















"An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision,"  James McNeill Whistler.



"There are more valid facts and details in works of art than there are in history books,"  Charlie Chaplin.



"My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on  a dare, "  Mike Myers.



"There is no must in art because art is free,"  Wassily Kandinsky. 



"The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture,"  Raymond Chandler. 



"Art is either plagiarism or revolution,"  Paul Gauguin. 



"Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately,"  Saul Bellow.



"Art is the proper task of life,"  Friedrich Nietzsche. 



"What good are computers? They can only give you answers,"  Pablo Picasso. 












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15 March, 2010


          

        







Quotes Blast











 Under  Riva Ridge, Italy
 @8" x  5"
 Charcoal
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Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.  Amelia Earhart.



Fads are the kiss of death.  When a fad goes away, you go  with it.  Conway Twitty.



In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.  Bob Dylan.



Art is made to disturb, science reassures.  George Braque.



The history of modern art is also the  history of the progressive loss of art's audience. Art has increasingly  become the concern of the artist and the bafflement of the public.  Paul  Gauguin. 



There's a lot of whiners in every crowd.  R. Lee Ermey.



I bought some batteries, but they weren't included.  Stephen Wright. 



You would be wise not to finish a painting.  Wayne Thiebaud.

  

When you cease to exist, then who will  you blame?  Bob Dylan. 



I make pictures and someone comes in and calls it art.  Willem de Kooning.



I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.  Lily Tomlin.



In art the best is good enough.  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.







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29 January, 2010


          

        







A Wolf Kahn Curriculum











After Wolf Kahn, #1
9.5" x 6"
Pastel on Paper
Casey Klahn


"Painting is easy, till you know how."
Edgar Degas.  h/t Wolf Kahn.

Speaking of Kahn, I found an interesting lesson plan at the Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts: Wolf Kahn, A Curriculum of his Life, Work and Influences.  I didn't like the section where a teacher assigns common meanings to colors, but if you stand back from the whole lesson plan, you see a nice hodge-podge of data on contemporary beliefs about color.  Actually, it is a collection of various lesson plans on color, with an emphasis on Modern art and current artists.  There are also a lot of art and education links embedded in this plan.

The Wolf Kahn images are enough to recommend this pdf. file to you.

Quote, Hoyt Center curriculum,

 
These lesson plans are the result of the work of the teachers who have attended the Columbia Education Center’s Summer Workshop. CEC is a consortium of teacher from 14 western states dedicated to improving the quality of education in the rural, western, United States, and particularly the quality of math and science Education. CEC uses Big Sky Telegraph as the hub of their telecommunications network that allows the participating teachers to stay in contact with their trainers and peers that they have met at the Workshops.











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