Two Quotes

A musician has said: In art, truth and reality begin when you no longer understand anything you do or know, and there remains in you an energy that much stronger for being balanced by opposition, compressed, condensed. Then you must present it with the greatest humility, completely white, pure, candid, your brain seeming empty in the state of a communicant approaching the Lord's Table. -- H. Matisse, 1939

The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity. -- A. Giacometti 

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Portrait of my Son, 1989 Graphite on Paper