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WD_097/ 2005
(  Satoshi Kinoshita )
| Series: | Works on paper: Drawings | | Medium: | oil pastel and wax crayon on paper | | Size (inches): | 25 x 19.9 | | Size (mm): | 640 x 510 | | Catalog #: | WD_097 | | Description: | Signed, date and copyright in pencil on the reverse.
If we study Japanese art, we see a man who is undoubtedly wise, philosophic and intelligent, who spends his time doing what?... He studies a single blade of grass.
-Vincent Van Gogh/ www.painterskeys.com
As a Japanese boy, I studied a nest of ants when I was four in Japan ;).
- The artist, 2005
Where is the highly talented painter without some primitive belief that magic is a presence in all artwork? .. . . . . "Let us assume that magic can adhere, for example, to a painting -- particularly if it is a fine work, and one owns it -- because the artwork can now be contemplated a thousand times rather than on a few occasions in a museum. .Each time the owner comes to appreciate more in the composition than he glimpsed before, the painting takes on an added endowment. .It becomes a center of meaning, it stimulates new thought, it induces energy in the viewer -- that is to say it has assumed magical powers. (Magic offers priceless energy) . . . . . Whatever provides us with continually enhanced connotation is magically endowed.
This is, of course, not true of all paintings we own, or of politicans who bore us, friends and lovers who depress us, rituals that weary us, or of relations in which we lose interest. .Repetition can also kill the soul, and so a ceremony, a person, or an object is able to enrich us only when its nature, it's artful nature, rewards further study or calls for more relationship -- that is to say, its nature transcends familiarity. .And that, indeed may be why good poetry is more magical than good prose -- the message is more elusive, more compressed, and more responsive to sensuous study.
-Norman Mailer in his book: Portrait of Picasso as a Young Man, Warner Books, NY, 1996/ jeanvincent.com
(Similar idea to that in above quote)
Admiration is a very short-lived passion that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object, unless it be still fed with fresh discoveries, and kept alive by a new perpetual succession of miracles rising up to its view.
-Joseph Addison (English poet and philosopher, 1672-1719)/ jeanvincent.com
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