Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.
~ Harper Lee (source)
A New Day
A wonderful day on Lake Superior with, our friends, Bill and Tom. Beautiful day nice to be here over looking the lake and enjoying their company. Classes started this week; the summer will surely fly by.
Welcome to the Era of Design – Forbes.
Missing Surfside, Our home on Lake Superior
Deliver me from writers who say the way they live doesn’t matter. I’m not sure a bad person can write a good book, If art doesn’t make us better, then what on earth is it for.”
~ Alice Walker (source)
On a Hill Top... Oberg Mountain Trail
Alice Walker believed art can change your life too. While creating my images, I find serenity. It is akin feeling God’s embrace.
Today I am sitting with the door open and listening to the waves softly splashing against the rocks. The sky grey and the fog hangs heavy in the air. The only other sound is a single chickadee calling for a mate. Wonderfully peaceful. Breathe deep and be thankful for life.
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.”
Pablo Picasso (source)
Abstraction of Spring
I don’t think I ever remove any evidence of reality but I am not all that sure that we really start with reality in the first place. Surely, we start with our experience of reality and perhaps we twist and turn that into another experience of reality interwoven with our joys, sorrows, pain, and intellect… Basically, it is an interplay for me, as I weave these things together.
An artist must never be a prisoner. Prisoner? An artist should never be a prisoner of himself, prisoner of style, prisoner of reputation, prisoner of success, etc.”
~ Henri Matisse
Spring Green—Along Lake Harriet
Teaching design, especially beginning design, I find myself continually correcting myself when I speak about the rules of design. Luckily, I listen as I speak and hear those words escape my lips and correct myself. “NO RULES, Guidelines… No rules.”
I never want my students to be imprisoned by rules… If designers were restricted by rules there would be no Milton Glaser, David Carson, Neville Brody, or Paula Scher.
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Dance, when you’re broken open. Dance, if you’ve torn the bandage off. Dance in the middle of the fighting. Dance in your blood. Dance when you’re perfectly free.” ~ Rumi
The kind of beauty I want most is the hard-to-get kind that comes from within - strength, courage, dignity.” ~ Ruby Dee
I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?” ~ John Lennon
