"Playground Series 4"

 "Playground Series 5"

Digital merged media

B111 “What an artist learns matters little. What he himself discovers has a real worth for him.
Art gives him the necessary incitement to work.”
Emil Nolde

B112 “Dr. Winter was a man so simple that only a profound man would know him as profound. Joseph was elderly and lean and serious, and his life so complicated that only a profound man would know him to be simple.”
John Steinbeck “The Moon is Down”


B113 “When you understand the big you understand the small.
First understand the big.”
Source unknown

"Undercurrent"

 "Undercurrent"

Digital merged media

B114 “I make prints because in using the metal, the wood, and all the other materials available I can express things that I cannot express by any other means. In other words, I am interested in printmaking, not as a means of reproduction, but as an original, creative medium. Even if I could pull only one print from each of my plates, I would still make them.
Gabor Peterdi – artist, painter/printmaker – American - Contemporary

B115 “Striving for perfection sets one up for failure.”
Source unknown.

A112 “Oh, but I was so much older then. I’m younger than that now.”
Bob Dylan

"Midsummer Series 2"

"Midsummer Series 2"

Digital merged media

A113 “The more you know about your craft
the freer you can be from it…
Real freedom arrives when the artist’s creative instinct
can function without limitation and without consciousness
of technical means.”
Gabor Peterdi – artist,painter/printmaker/teacher - contemporary

A114 “Creative breakthroughs are experiential. They do not come from intellectual analysis.”
Dr. Lucia Capacchione – art therapist, author

A115 “Only a mediocre writer is always at his best.”
Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) English dramatist and novelist

"Into the Light 4"

"Into the Light 4"

Digital merged media

 

A125 “Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.” 

Ralph Waldo Emerson  1801-1882  American philosopher, lecturer,essayist and poet

A127 “There was no art that did not stimulate him.”
of Degas

"Genesis Revisited"

"Genesis Revisited"

Digital merged media

A135 “As long as creative people handle tools and materials,
unexpected things will happen.
Artists invent, not by intent, but by necessity.”
Gabor Peterdi, author of book titled “Printmaking” 1959