“The different styles I have been using in my art must not be seen as an evolution, or as steps towards an unknown ideal of painting…”
“Different themes inevitably require different methods of expression. This does not imply either evolution or progress; it is a matter of following the idea one wants to express and the way in which one wants to express it.”
— Pablo Picasso via Picasso’s self portrait evolution from age 15 to age 90 by staff, Rare Historical Photos
“Are there any rituals or habits you perform before creating, or do you just jump right into it?
Usually, I just sit down and start cutting things up. Sometimes I may know I want to do something in particular (headless people, circles,..), but most of the time the materials will lead the way into what the collage becomes in the end.”
“Do you seek out inspiration or does it come to you on a whim?
Most of the time I don’t think about it. I just sit down and see what happens. If things are not working I may just take a break. Other times I just have to make pieces I’m not happy with to get to the work I am happy with. Of course, pieces I personally don’t like very much are sometimes appreciated more by others.”
— William Mellott via Interview: William Mellott by Allison Anne, Twin Cities Collage Collective
“It forces a person to consider that, sometimes two things are true at the same time. The world is grim and hilarious; the future is bright and unthinkable; you are sad, but you are dancing; you are home, but it is not the same.”
— Amanda Petrusich via Beck is Home by Amanda Petrusich, The New Yorker
“I look back on those early paintings as history. They are not really what I am now, or want, but it was a way to begin.”
— Dorothea Tanning via Dorothea Tanning by Carlo McCormick, BOMB Magazine
“Inspiration is for amateurs. The rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work.”
— Chuck Close via Chuck Close on Creativity, Work Ethic, and Problem-Solving vs. Problem-Creating by Maria Popova, The Marginalian
Stage 2 could start in . I should be preparing now.