Tiko Kerr quotes

“Be Bold. It's just canvas, just paint. If it doesn't work for you, paint over it and start again. Don't be afraid that you are wasting supplies. Every failure teaches something, if only what not to do.”
-- Tiko Kerr

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“Painting has always been a healthy and happy place for me to create. People really like that experience and so do I.”
-- Tiko Kerr

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“I guess I like to find the rhythm in things.”
-- Tiko Kerr

#Rhythm Quotes

“It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs.”

“I believe that whoever tries to think things through honestly will soon recognize how unworthy and even fatal is the traditional bias against Negroes. What can the man of good will do to combat this deeply rooted prejudice? He must have the courage to set an example by words and deed, and must watch lest his children become influenced by racial bias.”

“Every really new idea looks crazy at first.”

“There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.”

Source : ALISTAIR MACLEAN (1956). “THE GUNS OF NAVARONE”

“I'm a painter. I'm still a painter and I will die a painter. Everything that I have developed has to do with extending visual principles off the canvas.”

Source : Carolee Schneemann (2010). “Carolee Schneemann: Within and Beyond the Premises”, State Univ of New York Pr

“I don't have to lay on the couch and see a therapist because my therapist is in my paint brushes.”

“I paint with my back to the world”

Source : Ned Rifkin, Agnes Martin, Edward Hirsch, Menil Collection (Houston, Tex.) (2002). “Agnès Martin: the nineties and beyond”, Hatje Cantz Pub

“But I'm the only one who can paint the moon, because I'm the only one who knows whether that's right or not.”

“I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.”

“There is no tube of paint that says, 'Don't know.' I have to come to grips with it.”