I’ve always been an artist who just happens to make pottery, so I’m not a standard bearer for ceramics — I’m an artist. ~~ Grayson Perry
Kathy Loomis asks some big questions recently about craftsmanship and fabrication etc: But that leads me to a more important consideration – what’s with technique and craftsmanship anyway? Is it essential to great art these days? Is it acceptable but … Continue reading →
The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait … Continue reading →
while still whining a bit about the paperwork and waiting for the boxes to arrive and all? Why one reads up on what a proper ahrteest would do in this situation: Keep it (fairly) short. Write enough so that you … Continue reading →
By way of Judy: from East Coker by T.S. Eliot. You say I am repeating Something I have said before. I shall say it again. Shall I say it again? In order to arrive there, To arrive where you are, … Continue reading →
If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.
