ART IS TO BE LOVED - NOT TO BE JUDGED

Painting for me, is an expression of love and energy.

We are all so busy attempting to judge art. How can we judge art?
What yard stick can we use on something that has never existed until
that creative moment, something that has no laws or limitations to it's
style and beauty and is new with every busy stroke. What are you going
to compare it to when it has no peer?

If our art can be repeated using only skilled craftsmanship ultimately
reaches its level of maturity, all that "knowing how to paint" becomes a
subconscious mechanism. The creative energy, unhampered by concern
or lack of confidence, then spills itself onto the canvas. The educated
adult drifts back into a natural state of love and joy. This freedom, like
that of a child, is open to influence beyond the mind, thus bringing about
original and uninhibited beauty of expression.

Claude Monet worked very much on this principal as is evident in the
following quote made in Paris 1925.

"Everyone discusses (my art) and pretends to understand, as if it were
necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love"