L’ATELIER
April 30, 2011
Artiste Studio: Past commissioned courthouse project in progress – schematics and ceramic tile prototypes.
“It is always wonderful spending time at Nefertiti’s studio. I feel like a little kid going into a candy store, but this is a studio with many beautiful works of art, desiring to consume them all. She is truly a professional artist: dedicated and passionate with high standards.” Natalie Johnson Alves, MD
“Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.” Ansel Adams
Studio
“I see more and more that my work goes infinitely better when I am properly fed, and the paints are there, and the studio and all that. But have I set my heart on my work being a success? A thousand times no. I wish I could manage to make you really understand that when you give money to artists, you are yourself doing an artist’s work, and that I only want my pictures to be of such a quality that you will not be too dissatisfied with your work.” Vincent van Gogh
Artist Does Work: blessed with seven days a week.
“A man who works with his hands is a laborer; a man who works with his hands and his mind is a craftsman; but a man who works with his hands and his brain and his heart is an artist.” St. Thomas Aquinas
Framed artwork on display for a visitor
“Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.” Andy Warhol
A solitaire moment before the creative process begins
“The master of the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him, he is always doing both.” Lao Tzu
To be continued……
©Nefertiti
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