good quote you put up there...


"On her small canvas...she recreated the mountains not as she had originally seen them but as she eventually chose to see them, for a person has not only perceptions but a will to perceive, not only a capacity to observe the world but a capacity to alter his or her observation of it----which, in the end, is the capacity to alter the world, itself. Those people who recognize that imagination is reality's master, we call "sages, " and those who act upon it, we call "artists."
Or "lunatics." Can o' Beans was correct when he/she linked low-reality orientation to mental illness, but the true idiot is distinguished from the "idiot" sage or "idiot" artist by his or her lack of control. The idiot's twisted perceptions of the world are not voluntarily or imaginatively altered, they are merely faulty. Lunatics are at the mercy of misunerstood and unmanageable perceptions. When it comes to THIER reality, artists call the shots.
Ellen Cherry was calling the shots, turning mountains upside down, changing boulders into willow trees and willows into lemon meringue pie. The canvas vibrated with mad megajoules of natural energy, geology, meteorology, zoology, and botany all mixed together in a slow boiling tribute to nature and paint. Painting, she sang a song of cobalts and oxides, cadmiums and umbers; naming the pigments aloud as a novice in a convent might recite the names of the saints: "Vandyke brown, " for example, patron saint of cheap cigars, "rose madder, " protector of irate florists."

-Tom Robbins "Skinny Legs And All"

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Art is the vision of worlds outside our own, where time and space can change according to the creator....In art the artist is god.

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