WANNA
PEEK INSIDE MY BRAIN?
TRY LIVING WITH IT...
WELCOME TO MY NIGHTMARE!
“
wanted only to try to live in accord
with the promptings
which came from my true self. Why
was that so very difficult?”
- Donatien
Alphonse
François,
Marquis
de Sade
"It's a disease -- being an artist. They cannot do anything other than what they are doing." ~ Terry Dintenfass
"No man, and least of all myself, could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him." ~ Thomas Eakins
"How do we know we are artists? ...All one can express at any moment is himself... What if I have merely suffered as an artist but, in the end, produced nothing that might be called Art?" - Robert Schumann
"My works, those dispersed and those remaining in my studio, record my struggle for awareness and convictions in a world full of contradictions and violence." - Anthony Toney
"In
his work, a messy, violent, adversarial world is given order through art."
- Holland Cotter re Ni Zan (1306-1374)