Art is a Complex Affair

BLUE-VIOLET CIRCLE      oil on canvas     6" x 6" x 1.5"

Quote from Peter London's classic book, NO MORE SECONDHAND ART, that has been a treasure to me for a long time:

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"...a good deal of art is play, still more of it is acting, some of it is experiment, some of it role playing, some of it fantasy, some of it borrowing, some teasing, some misleading, some candor, some blind searching, some catharsis, some mistakes, some serendipity, some in fact accurate transcriptions of the way things are.  It's a complex business whose symbols are arcane and whose meanings are often obscure or purposefully obscured."