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MICHELE MARTIN TAYLOR

Thoughts & Drawings

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Nature is the most exquisite, expert artist. MMT

Art is accomplished by the language beneath language. An Artist must be fluent in a language without words.MMT

Like analgesics for physical pain, art is the medicine for the pain of the soul.mmt

Tuality

"Nothing is more useful to man than those arts that have no utility" Ovid, 1st cent.bc

"What is called a sincere work is one that has enough strength to give reality to an illusion" Max Jacob

The more I work, the more ideas occur that need to be explored, each painting a link in the chain of creation and growth. MMT

Art is the enduring, beautiful product of thoughtful artists who possess the skills to communicate visually in a way that transcends time and culture.

Art is not creativity, experimentation or the desire to create the unique and unusual.The process is not the art. It is a wonderful thing to live in an age where we appreciate creative effort, but those who have dedicated their lives to perfecting

their art should be respected and appreciated, since the future's evaluation of our time rests in their hands. MMT

Twightlight on the River

The triumph of painting must be remarked even by the most determined conceptualist. Somehow, there really isn't a better way of presenting personal, inner, alternative realities than smearing combinations of grease and pigment on flat surfaces.MMT

Your art works will one day comfort you .They are beautiful friends in your home .

I have been experimenting with classicism, both in technique and topic. A golden age in Eden, a subject I did extensively in my youth, calls me back .

Conservatory lll 36 x 48 o/l

These paintings are new for me because they depend on drawing and

tone to establish the composition and set the emotional stage. I enjoy composing with a limited palette because once color is eliminated as a tool for establishing space and feeling, drawing and geometry become important and intriguing allies.

The spring is so beautiful this year, even I have fallen in love.

After painting thousands of paintings with millions of brushstrokes, the knowledge of painting seems to flow in me from my fingertips back to my mind.

Doing color-driven work will always be an intense love affair for me, To coax and lead color to be a language of its' own is exhilarating and energizing.

"One has always to spoil a picture a little bit in order to finish it."Eugene Delacroix-

This is one of the reasons I work the way I do, I want my work to be unconfined by working one bit past the essential.MMT

Sometimes I think the trouble with modern art is that it isn't modern.Sometimes I think the trouble is that it isn't art. Art is not about ideas.MMT

Art is too complicated to be explained by words- it can only be explained by art.

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The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he's always doing both.

-James A. Michener