A while ago, I posted this on my other blog.
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In this book from The Tate about the artist Sir Terry Frost, I found this:
"To look at a painting which gives you the opportunity to have solitude, to be yourself and to be able to wander into reverie, is more than hedonistic, it's spiritual".
Until now I have never 'got' the work of Mark Rothko - I loved his way with paint, but never understood the paintings themselves. Somehow this quote managed to pin down for me their essentially meditative nature.
Which leads me to this from Rothko:
"Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit, and the only means of making concrete the purpose of its varied quickness and stillness. "
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I still find these inspiring and they still inform some of what I am trying to do in my own work, however unsuccessfully. I was prompted to repost them by this post over on Tina Mammoser's blog.
