More quotes on the Artistic Process

"The only way to learn about new styles was to make a great deal of art." Milton Avery

"During these twelve years (after arrival in New York in 1925) he allowed himself the freedom to experiment without feeling the need to freeze his art into a permanent style. His openness to new ideas, his obvious talent, and his ability to wait patiently for maturity made him a role model". Robert Hughes about Milton Avery,

" The most important tool the artist fashions, through constant practice, is faith in the ability to produce miracles when they are needed" Mark Rothko

"If anyone works long enough on anything, inspiration occurs a bit" Frank Auerbach

"An artist should observe nature, but never confuse it with painting" Picasso

"We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own, and other people's models, learn to be ourselves, and allow our natural channel to open" Shakti Gawain

Image: Gabrielle Jones, "Night Storm" 2008, 122 x 152 Oil on Canvas

Quotes from Auerbach

The following quotes are from the book on Auerbach by Robert Hughes.

"Not until the very end did I get the courage to make some things bigger and others smaller than they were; to get the right expression of the whole thing...when I had done it, I recognised somehow that I had cut through my habits, I had made some shapes that seemed to conjure up a coherent, plastic fact: I had done my own painting. I didn't know whether I would ever be able to do it again, but at least I knew what it felt like."

"Nothing can be left out...but you have to bury the irrelevant in the picture, somehow". (To do this, he gradually realised paint would have to relate to drawing in a different way).

"In a good painting, everything is painted with the pressure of a grander agenda behind it, but sometimes the agenda isn't clear to the artist until the very end. It gives the secret unity... The problem is always to identify it."

"I cannot conceive of a way of working inwhich you make an armature and then put things on it. It's exactly those decisions about size, gesture and so forth that one wants to leave until last".

Image: Gabrielle Jones, "Grounded" 2008, 110 x 83cm