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Self-employed Australian creative visual artist/designer/educator/tutor and co-owner/operator of Artropica Innisfail Studio Gallery.
"To see we must forget the name of the thing we are looking at." ~ Claude Monet
(France b.14 Nov.1840 - d.14 Nov.1926)
'Transcendence ~ Abstract 92' ©Kerryn Madsen-Pietsch |
(from) TAPE 3 (http://www.australianbiography.gov.au/subjects/gascoigne/interview3.html)
Is this associated, this kind of personal freedom, associated in your mind with the Australian landscape...Yes, it is. It's the width. It's the width and the rock under your feet and the high sky. And you're on your own a bit, you see. So you've got to - it's like I always say that an artist is like someone in the desert - metaphorical desert - and there's nothing there unless you put it there yourself. See it's all inside you, what you can put. And that's what art is. You're there in the desert, you can't draw, you can't paint, you can't do anything. You take the lot of you. Whatever you can't do, and all you're governed by is by what you want. You see, you've got to know what you want.
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Were you doing any arrangements of these that you showed other people?I didn't ever show anybody. People came in to look. But they didn't understand mostly, the people that were there, why you liked something or why you didn't like something. And it takes decades to get yourself independent of other people's preferences. Especially if you're vulnerable like that. And I think I was plenty vulnerable. And it took you some time to sort out. And that's all you've got, you see. In the end, if you go for other people's appreciation, it passes and you change anyway. So you have to go for your own, whatever you like. And that's what makes you different in the end, because everybody is born different. They conform very quickly, to - for self-defense I think. I think they do.
"An artist is someone who uses bravery, insight, creativity, and boldness to challenge the status quo.
And an artist takes it (all of it, the work, the process, the feedback from those we seek to connect with) personally.
Art isn’t a result; it’s a journey. The challenge of our time is to find a journey worthy of your heart and your soul.…
Art is a project; it is not a place. You will build your dream house and it will burn down.
You will start your business and it will succeed, until it doesn’t, and then you’ll move on.
You will stand onstage and speak from the heart, and some people in the audience (perhaps just one person in the audience) won’t get you, won’t accept you, won’t embrace you.
That’s what art is.
Art is a leap into the void, a chance to give birth to your genius and to make magic where there was no magic before." ~ Seth Godin
Source Ref. http://blog.researchdevelop.org/post/47862926675/seth-godin-we-are-all-artists-now
'Pathway of Journeys'
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