Charm City ramble

[WIREMAN]

........sometimes we all get caught up in the making it, when really we should keep in the back of our mind to just keep living it, an artist full of "on the edge", I'm talkin' bout the fringe, where it's fresh, cause it's all in the ride...........luckily at and early age I read a statement by the painter Ben Nicholson where he said, "the thing is to always remain that aspiring artist on the edge, strugglig and free." & also a statement by Marcel Duchamp in which he said, " I was lucky to have learned at an early age not to take myself too seriously."....these thoughts burn in my wired mind........ ........painter Scotty Stevenson's casa round the corner from me in Sowebohemia...aka Baltimore

[lescaret]

Thanks Wire, very good points/quotes. Complacency or, worse, the Smug Swagger can turn a hungry artist into a bloated blowhard.

That building is fantastic! I just posted a reply to some work by JLoco (Visual Arts thread), a post whereby I confess to being moved more by landscapes & urbanscapes than by portraiture. This building typifies exactly what I love the most.

Just look at it - a ragtag edifice, not kept up but, in its battered face, wonderfully interesting patterns and color. It's got CHARACTER and therein stories are held. Oh, the nights and days that building has endured & witnessed!

[mousey1]

I think one of the worst things you can do is take yourself too seriously. You gotta laugh man, you gotta laugh. The world'll get you down so bad if you don't and can't.

"struggling and free" and happy. They say if you have it all you just end up wanting more. To create for yourself, what pleases you, is definitely the key I think, not to sell out to the masses.

Nice inspiring thoughts Wireman.

But do we ever stop criticizing ourselves our work? Should we?

You know that buildings got class and character.