The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.

Aristotle

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.

Thomas Merton

Transit in a green landscape youtube 7 minute video
with music by New Zealander Mark Laurent.

Art is a step from what is obvious and well-known toward what is arcane and concealed.

Khalil Gibran

The Anatomy Lesson
painting - Observation

The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape, from a spider's web.

Pablo Picasso

House of Worship - de Pieter
Kāinga a roto | Home within

... art is a total thing. A total person giving a contribution. It is an essence, a soul.. In my inner soul art and life are inseparable

Eva Hesse

Room of Memories

I saw the angel in the marble and carved
until I set him free

Michelangelo

Ngā Hau e Wha

I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way - things I had no words for.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Fruit
Waka Huia | Feather Boat

It's not what you look at that matters,
it's what you see.

Henry David Thoreau

The Experience of Change

I don't paint things.
I only paint the difference between things.

Henri Matisse

Generating Plant
Tulips from Istanbul
Memorials
Tomorrow Looks Back


Particularities and Essences video - 6 min.