Inside, Not Out

Peter London, "No More Secondhand Art"

It is ironic that our very concept of art, and what is required to make it, dooms most would-be artist to frustration and modest results. There are three false and killing notions about art. The first is that art is about beauty. The second is that in order to be an artist you must train your hands to be dexterous and your eyes to be accurate. The third is that there are certain canons of good form that is applied, will bring about beautiful things. Each of these three precepts is true, but none is true enough. Their perversity resides in their incompleteness, not in their wrongness.

I share these blogger thoughts because; I have read many books on art and this one is without a doubt near my favorites.