“A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people” said Edgar Degas. And Salvador Dali: “People love mystery and that is why they love my paintings”.
Julia Cameron, author of The Artist’s Way maintains, “Mystery is at the heart of creativity” and in my studio I often recall a quote from from Francis Bacon: “The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery”.
Break-a-Brush!
David
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“Art evokes the mystery without which the world would not exist” René Magritte