comme d'habitude

here is some philosophical pie for you to chew on this weekend. [courtesy of mr. bayles and mr. orland....quoted in my seminar class]

"In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot - and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy."
...................................... David Bayles and Ted Orland.

"Some people who make art are driven by inspiration, others by provocation, still others by desperation. Artmaking grants access to worlds that may be dangerous, sacred, forbidden, seductive, or all of the above. It grants access to worlds you may otherwise never fully engage. It may in fact be the engagement--not the art--that you seek. The difference is that making art allows, indeed guarantees, that you declare yourself. Art is contact, and your work necessarily reveals the nature of that contact. In making art you declare what is important."
...................................... David Bayles and Ted Orland.

p.s. i want to be an artist.
just reaffirming that fact.