hello May, i
have been away,
doing so little
so here is not much to say.
be well , sonja
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― Pablo Picasso
"PAINT WHAT YOUR EYE CAN SEE AND GIVE IT A SOUL, YOUR SOUL, AND LET NOT THE ONLOOKERS MAKE JUDGEMENT ..... FILL YOUR MIND WITH THE WIND AND THE AIR AND COLORS OF EVERYTHING KNOWN TO MAN AND ANIMAL ALIKE."
~Fabriozi 1471 - 1502 artist
"I found 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
i love painting on fabric mostly and other surfaces to see what i am thinking about ... designing, arting, quilting,composing a day or a project and otherwise being curious in the wide world. i am attempting to make grateful sense of a beautiful and mysterious place called earth between sunsets with joy and hopefully grace.
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“After all, hope is a form of planning. If our hopes weren’t already real within us, we couldn’t even hope them.”Gloria Steinem
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
― Pablo Picasso
About Me
- sonja
- I love color and fabric and going "what if I... " and then seeing where that leads me.i make art out of ideas and paint and fabric mostly and what ever else comes across my path.I Photograph what is in my world helps to explain what i see to myself and others through my art of collaging, quilting, figuratives, postcards and art that mails, and other inventions. Everyday is an adventure if viewed through fresh eyes!
"Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you're stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is." Mark Vonnegut
Life isn't about finding yourself.
Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
" Art is the only way to run away without leaving home." twyla tharp
“I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.” (Marc Chagall)
"Not all of us are painters but we are all artists. Each time we fit things together we are creating - whether it is to make a loaf of bread, a child, a day. " Corita Kent
"Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else
decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While
they are deciding, make even more art." Andy Warhol
decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While
they are deciding, make even more art." Andy Warhol
"It could be argued that creativity is a form of prayer, a form of thankfulness and recognition of all we have to be thankful for, walking in this world."
Julia Cameron
Julia Cameron
"What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit" John Updike
Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
Mary Oliver
"The cure for boredom is curiosity.
There is no cure for curiosity."
Dorothy Parker
There is no cure for curiosity."
Dorothy Parker
"PAINT WHAT YOUR EYE CAN SEE AND GIVE IT A SOUL, YOUR SOUL, AND LET NOT THE ONLOOKERS MAKE JUDGEMENT ..... FILL YOUR MIND WITH THE WIND AND THE AIR AND COLORS OF EVERYTHING KNOWN TO MAN AND ANIMAL ALIKE."
~Fabriozi 1471 - 1502 artist
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Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That's how the light gets in."
Leonard Cohen
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enthusiasm......Winston Churchill
If you could say it in words, there would be no reason to paint."~ Edward Hopper
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Art is the only way to run away without leaving home. ~Twyla Tharp
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"Today you are You,
that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
Dr. Seuss
that is truer than true.
There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
Dr. Seuss
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Picasso
Picasso
Remember...Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it. ~Buddha
"I found 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
I never paint dreams or nightmares.
I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected. ~William Plomer
"The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance."Aristotle
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” ~ Thomas Merton
"Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)" Walt Whitman
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2 comments:
Hello May and hello, Sonja. I like your poetry, and thanks for the tip about the Aussie dogs on YouTube. I've enjoyed watching several of their videos.
oh I pray for those things too...
hoping things are going well there... know you've had a lot to deal with the last few weeks... I painted fabric last week and thought about you... wish we could do it together.
we could on zoom or facetime...
Love, LeeAnna
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