Playing With the Soul

“When the Soul wants to experience something she throws out an image in front of her and then steps into it.” ― Meister Eckhart In my May 2012 blog”Who Creates Art?”, I have given a recipe for creating art. “So the art is created by both...

Why Do I Create Art?

“The soul never thinks without a picture” Aristotle I feel the need to quiet the mind, to be able to see and feel things without thoughts, preconceived ideas and beliefs. To be able to tap not only into my own soul, where my creativity resides, I also want to connect...

Thoughts on Originality

  “What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new idea, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough” Eugene Delacroix What is originality or original art? I think there is nothing new. There are only new...

Zen of Understanding

“Sometimes it proves the highest understanding not to understand”  Gracian   Sumi-e is a form of oriental painting from Japan. It is a pictorial expression of the spirit that resides in Zen martial arts and meditation. It possesses unique character and beauty...

Music and Sumi-e.

  “The composer’s surface is an illusion into which he puts something real – sound.  The painter’s surface is something real from which he then creates an illusion…Morton Feldman   Painting and music have coexisted for centuries as forms of creative expression....

Anticipation

  Internet with World Wide Web has opened the ways of communication between people all over the world. People exchange ideas, thoughts, recipes,… share videos, pictures and feelings… It seems that the whole world has become like a big family, with...