What the artist should be asking is, "Am I being honest? Am I being myself? Am I searching for the truth? Am I reporting my experience of life and the world as I see and experience it?
Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet e… - Scott Kahn
Let us not forget that group of self-taught, outsider artists who never stepped foot in any classroom and cared less about even exhibiting, and yet e…
- Scott Kahn
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait! - Scott Kahn
Self-deceit is a most damaging trait. The remedy, for an artist, is to paint a self-portrait!
The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different. - Scott Kahn
The voice will always be heard, even if the song is very different.
I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not bei… - Scott Kahn
I paint with a language I can call my own... it takes a ruthless honesty with oneself. If one admires or is influenced by anyone else, one is not bei…
I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings. - Scott Kahn
I don't approve of what Wall Street and the wealthy have done to this country, but they are the very ones buying my paintings.
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power. - Scott Kahn
I don't think it's wise to manufacture a painting, just for the sake of working... if the impulse isn't truly there, the painting will lack power.
The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting an… - Scott Kahn
The art which speaks to a universal audience concerns itself with the 'big' questions of life and death, and delivers its message with unrelenting an…
Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist. - Scott Kahn
Becoming an artist cannot be taught. A degree and diligence is not a guarantee that one can become an 'artist.
Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists de… - Scott Kahn
Color, like everything else concerning visual expression, usually boils down to a gift, an innate sensibility and sensitivity. Ultimately, artists de…
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