First post this year

 This is the first post of the year and I am just able to get some of my work on here before January is over.   

Why is art so powerful?

• Art is powerful because it empowers the hearts of people and helps make a difference in the world. In that respect, below is my collection of inspirational, beautiful, and thought-provoking art quotes, art sayings, and art proverbs, collected from a variety of sources over the years. Art quotes celebrating the power and beauty of creation.
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To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.

Charles Baudelaire

The truly modern artist is aware of abstraction in an emotion of beauty.

Piet Mondrian

The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.

Jackson Pollock

You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Milan Kundera

Modern art is a disaster area. Never in the field of human history has so much been used by so many to say so little.

Banksy

It is not hard to understand modern art. If it hangs on a wall it's a painting, and if you can walk around it it's a sculpture.

Tom Stoppard

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

Edith Wharton

The modern artist... is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy, the motion, and other inner forces.

Jackson Pollock

Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.

Freddie Mercury

The modern artist, by nature and destiny, is always an individualist.

Herbert Read

Most painting in the European tradition was painting the mask. Modern art rejected all that. Our subject matter was the person behind the mask.

Robert Motherwell   

 (Those of you who know my work will know I have painted many, many masks. Your bro in art, P.G.Kimble)

To become truly immortal a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken it will enter the regions of childhood vision and dream.

Giorgio de Chirico

When I lose myself in my art I find my being with God.

Peter G Kimble

When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.

Jackson Pollock

Well, folks this the end of this first blog of the year and I have just managed to get it finished a couple of hours or so before the start of Feb. 

So chaps and chapesses I hope that this is a great new year for us all and lets hope the vaccines for Coronavirus get rolled out soon and that they do a good job.

 Take care out there folks. Your bro in art, peace and love,

 Peter G Kimble.