Monday 29 September 2014

      Good day and lets just enjoy  the fact that its now and its not tomorrow.     


You do know I hope that the photos of art and the paintings are mine and its only the accompanying sayings who are by the names I give credit for?
Good and of course credit must go to God Almighty for creating the me and the universe and stuff for me to do my art.. Thanks Big man, you are The Man.

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 If I choose abstraction over reality, it is because I consider it the lesser chaos. (Robert Brault)


 Abstract art has come into being as a necessary expression of the feelings and thoughts of our age; it has added new dimensions to creative painting. (Leonard Brooks)


 Abstract Art... is part of the constant change and vital searching that energizes every true art. (Leonard Brooks)


 What I mean by 'abstract' is something which comes to life spontaneously through a gamut of contrasts, plastic at the same time as psychic, and pervades both the picture and the eye of the spectator with conceptions of new and unfamiliar elements... (Marc Chagall)



 Abstract literally means to draw from or separate. In this sense every artist is abstract... a realistic or non-objective approach makes no difference. The result is what counts. (Richard Diebenkorn)


 By means of the sign, man frees himself from the here and now for abstraction. (Umberto Eco)


 Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form. (Anton Ehrenzweig)


                  Abstraction is an esoteric language. (Eric Fischl)


 Abstract artists tell their stories with shapes, color, edges, movement, and value - just like when one is painting a beautiful scene. The difference is, of course, there is no scene. The scene is within the artist. I often get asked, 'How do you know when you are done?' I am done when the story is told. (Gwen Fox)



             Do not copy nature too much. Art is an abstraction. (Paul Gauguin)


 Abstraction allows man to see with his mind what he cannot physically see with his eyes... Abstract art enables the artist to perceive beyond the tangible, to extract the infinite out of the finite. It is the emancipation of the mind. It is an explosion into unknown areas. (Arshile Gorky) This quote resonates with my own being.


 With abstract art I can create in the moment. No preconceived ideas. I just put some color on the canvas and keep going. (Peggy Guichu)



 Abstract art is a creative interplay between the conscious and the unconscious, with the conscious mind making all the final decisions and in control throughout. (Lawren Harris) Now I agree with a lot of the above with the proviso that perhaps unknown to our conscious mind, the subconscious occasionally some-times calls the shots.


 So now the floodgates are open to the delight of pure form, whatever its origin. Anything goes. (Philip Johnson)


 The more abstract is form, the more clear and direct its appeal. (Wassily Kandinsky)


 How do abstract artists know when they're getting better? (David Leffel) Maybe then answer is look back at my work when first posted and then now.. The future is unknown.



 An abstract painting is exactly what it proports to be, whether it be paint splatters or stripes, while a representational painting has to give the illusion of the paint being air, or flesh, or flowers... therefore abstract paintings are rather concrete while representational paintings are rather abstract. (David Leffel)


 Due to my big sisters intervention stating just right that I am meant to be helping my sons and ex-wife move house.




 Have a blessed and inspired Monday, dont knock cos its all we have got today! Brothers and sisters, know that you are loved and share this love and blog. Spread it around generously. Thank you.
                Fin

Friday 26 September 2014

Fish on Friday

Fish on Friday

Good day brothers and sisters.  May the love of God bless you and always be light to your heart, soul and mind. Welcome to today's blog.

As usual, you are first after God and me to see these pictures.
I used along with some paint on the paper, decorators caulk, to give it the three dimensional aspect. 
I may be moving from painting using a transition of other media, back to sculpture. Who knows for sure, not me! All I know for sure is that we are all loved and our true goal should we accept it or not is to realize this love and express it.


 For one who desires to approach God, it is necessary to become the enemy of His enemies; and, as I find nothing that is worse than myself, nor that is more inimical to Him, I am compelled to hold myself in more aversion than anything else whatever, and will even despise myself and count it to be worthless. And, on the other hand, I will detach my spirit from all the goods of both this world and the other, which I will henceforth regard as if they had no existence. I have implored God neither to suffer me to rejoice interior nor to grieve over any created thing, so that I may never be seen to shed a single tear. And I have begged Him to take away from me the freedom of my will, so that I may no longer do what pleases me, but only what is according to His pleasure: all these things I have obtained from his clemency.





 I see clearly with the interior eye, that the sweet God loves with a pure love the creature that He has created, and has a hatred for nothing but sin, which is more opposed to Him than can be thought or imagined. 



 That which man judges to be perfect, in the sight of God is defect. For all the works of man, which appear faultless when he considers them feels, remembers, wills and understands them, are, if he does not refer them to God, corrupt and sinful. For, to the perfection of our works it is necessary that they be wrought in us but not of us. In the works of God it is he that is the prime mover, and not man.


 Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.



There is no doubt that, if man could perceive the many difficulties thrown by self-love in the way of his own good, he would no longer allow himself to be deceived by it; and its malignity is the more to be dreaded because it is so powerful that were but one grain of it in the world would be sufficient to corrupt all mankind. Wherefore I conclude that self-love is the root of all evils which exist in this world and in the other. Behold Lucifer, whose present state is the result of following the suggestions of his self-love; and in ourselves it seems to me even worse. Our father Adam has so contaminated us that to my eyes the evil appears almost incurable, for it so penetrates our veins, our nerves, our bones, that we can neither say nor think nor do anything which is not full of the poison of this love - not even those thoughts and deeds which are directed toward the purification of the spirit.





 When I see and contemplate what God is, and what our own misery is, and behold the many ways by which he seeks to exalt us, I am transported beyond myself with astonishment. On the part of man, I see such a perversity and rebellion against God, that it seems impossible to bend his will except by the lure of things greater than those he enjoys here in this life. This is because the soul loves visible things, and will not renounce one but with the hope of four. And even with this hope, she would still seek to escape, if God did not retain her by his exterior and interior graces, without which man, whose instincts are naturally corrupt, could not be saved; for we are naturally corrupt, could not be saved; for we are naturally prone to add actual to original sin, and to continually tend toward earth for our satisfactions.







 Oh, Love! let me remain thus, that I may be submissive; for otherwise it would be impossible that I should not do something wrong. Oh, how good and admirable is the knowledge of a soul, which, being all protected, united, and transformed in God, her felicity, sees clearly, on one side, her own inclination to all that is evil, and on the other, how she is restrained by God, that she may not commit actual sin! One thing is certain; namely, that never is the soul so perfect that it does not need the continual help of God, even though it be transformed in him. It is true, that the nature of the sweet God is such, that he never allows these souls to fall, although the soul, left to herself, could fall if she were not thus restrained. But he only preserves those who never with their free will consent unto sin; and allows those to fall who do voluntarily yield assent thereto; for truly, having given us free will, he will not force it. Consequently, those who fall into sin do so by their own fault, and not by that of God, who is ever ready to aid the soul even after her fall, if she will allow herself to be aided, and will correspond to the divine grace which never ceases to call her, saying: "Turn from evil and do good, and be converted to me with your whole heart.




 I am prepared to defend mysticism against a very common charge, one brought often by scientists and others who prize rational thought. This charge is that the mystical vision is irrational. I believe that this criticism is misdirected. On the face of it, there is nothing logically incoherent about a view that reality is an undifferentiated unity. In fact, the Greek philosopher Parmenides, the only pre-Socratic thinker who had a clear grasp of the principle of contradiction, used logic to attempt a proof of absolute monism. Mysticism is not necessarily irrational; rather, it is just highly improbable given what we know about the world. The other aspect of this charge is that mystical experiences are irrational because they cannot possibly happen. With some exceptions of course, I believe that we should believe mystics when they claim that they have had these experiences. It is the interpretation of the experiences that we can challenge, and I believe that we can do that very successfully. I am personally convinced that the total unity they experience is in the mind and not in reality.

 Whether going out into the
the world, or inside heart
and mind of what we for sake
of convenience, we call our
self.
Know that there can really be
no separate self from all
that is, was and shall be.
We are all one and some
of us get to realize 
this `being` and
attach less
importance 
on doing!
Bless

Peace and love to you and all beings, from bro Peter G Kimble ps
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Thursday 25 September 2014

Untitled as yet...

Still no title to this blog. I am just going to share these shots of recent paintings, with the hope that for today this will be 
enough for you to be posted on this artists blog.As you will see, I am almost going from painting to sculpting! This on paper.











                                                                Fin