Allied Arts

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.

- Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoonist

Above all, it is a matter of loving art, not understanding it.
- Fernand Leger

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

- Leonardo da Vinci

Art is not a thing; it is a way.

- Elbert Hubbard

Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.

- Pablo Picasso

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

- Thomas Merton

Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.

- Twyla Tharp

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

- Oscar Wilde

Creativity takes courage.

- Henri Matisse

There's no retirement for an artist, it's your way of living so there's no end to it.

- Henry Moore

To create one's own world in any of the arts takes courage.

We hope you have an inspriring weekend!

"The job of the artist is always to deepend the mystery."
- Francis Bacon

As the sun colors flowers, so does art color life.
- John Lubbock

Take in some art this weekend to add color to these dreary days.  It will be a breath of fresh air!

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.

- Georgia O'Keefe

Enjoy today's gorgeous-ness!

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

- Aristotle

The guy below (Aristotle) knew what he was talking about when it came to art!

To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.  
- Robert A. Schumann

An artist cannot fail; it is a success to be one. 
- Charles Horton Cooley

To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way. 

- E.M. Forster, Two Cheers for Democracy, 1951

All great art comes from a sense of outrage. 
- Glenn Close



The queen of outrage and fashion as art
- Cruella De Vil played by Ms. Close herself

Last night, the Thunder had the "final word" against the Lakers. Today's Final Word Friday is inspired by Oklahoma City's first NBA playoff win!

There is a power in everything; it is the job of the artist to determine it and express it.

- Mencius, 372-289 B.C.




Artist Robert Hurst captures the power of Kevin Durant. Hurst's work and more Thunder art can be found at Images Gallery: The Art of Sport at Spring Creek Shopping Center in Edmond. Receive 15% off your purchase with your OKCityCard.  http://www.imagesgalleryok.com/

Thunder UP!

Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. 
- Leonardo da Vinci



I wonder what she's feeling...

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others. 
- Jonathan Swift



Picture from Gulliver's Travels, Swift's most notable novel.

Love this quote!

"Art doesn't transform. It just plain forms."

- Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist. His work was influenced by advertising and comic books (how cool is that?). Check out one of his works below...

Every artist was first an amateur.
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Now is always a good time to start.  Thanks, Ralph!

Every good painter paints what he is.
- Jackson Pollock

Time Magazine described Jackson Pollock as the "bearded shock trooper of modern painting, who spread his canvases on the floor, dribbled paint, sand and broken glass on them, smeared and scratched them, named them with numbers..." at his death in 1956. Pollock's Number 1 - 1950 (Lavender Mist) is displayed in the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Hooray for the weekend! I'm expecting a pretty low key weekend and I can't WAIT.

Enjoy today's final word Friday. Did you know that Picasso had four children with three women? I had no idea! Below is a portrait of one of his sons, Paul.

"Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up. "
- Pablo Picasso

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.
- Albert Einstein

Today, we're thankful for our freedom to be artists, be creative and be ourselves.  Happy Independence Day!



I love America!!

Personality is everything in art and poetry.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Many would consider Goethe to be the most important writer in the German language. His work, Faust, was written in two parts and is the inspiration for several operas and symphonic works.

Treat a work of art like a prince. Let it speak to you first.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

This is "Cool Staccato" by Gene Davis housed here at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art. What does this piece say to you?

Some painters transform the sun into a yellow spot, others transform a yellow spot into the sun.
- Pablo Picasso

Chihuly transforms the Oklahoma sunset into this amazing tower of glass.  You can find this stunning piece at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art.



Everyone have a great, sunny weekend!

YEAH for the weekend! It's so close we can almost touch it. Hope you enjoy this week's quote.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

- George Bernard Shaw

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.
- Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos.
 - Stephen Sondheim

This is a great thing to remember as the craziness of the start of the school year is upon us!  Take a break for art to slow down, rewind and get some order back into your life.  I know I plan to!