going somewhere?
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ::: Lao Tzu :::
Provence Studios
public art | sculpture | jewelry
Provence Studios
public art | sculpture | jewelry
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the architecture of happiness
“We call a thing beautiful when it contains in a concentrated form those qualities, which we personally or as a society lack. We respect a style that can move us away from what we fear and towards what we crave.”…
the mysterious
The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead.…
pretty little bits
“The arts are not the pretty but irrelevant bits around the border of reality. They are highways into the center of a reality which cannot be glimpsed, let alone grasped, any other way.” N. T. Wright
tickling stones
I see no reason why I should tickle stones or waste time on polishing bronze. Louise Nevelson
shock of the new
“Fear always accompanies the making of art and is generated by the shock of seeing an idea take form – a sculpture in the mind is safe and secure – a work rarely behaves as I intend, uncertainty and unpredictability…