Day Off Week 41 2023

I seem to have missed making a report on my day off on October 3 and can't remember much of it now (althoough I think I bought Yarg and there was cheese blogging and the viewing of BBC documentaries on the Nazis). Anyway, on October 10 I was up early to take Eleri to work as she was not only out all day but had an evening meeting too. On the way back I grabbed a coffee and read my Bible, etc. There was a prayer meetng at 11 am - four of us gathered for a cuppa and a time of prayer. I was reading two art books during the day - one on Degas in the wonderful series I collect and another on Turner in Wales. I had forgotten he had painted Newport Castle. We had house guests so I spent a little time with them but they were out much of the day and soI went to Chipotle for lunch. I bought some ort Salut to reort on at my cheese blog. I also watched the BBC docudrama on Jimmy Savile, which proved to be surprisngy theological on the whole.

10 Quotes on art by well known artists

1. The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery

Francis Bacon

2. A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art

Paul Cezanne

3. Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.

Georges Braque

4. Great art picks up where nature ends.

Marc Chagall

5. Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it./ Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Salvador Dali

6. Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

Edgar Degas

7. The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.

Lucian Freud

8. If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.

Edward Hopper

9. Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.

Pablo Picasso

10. Painting is the most beautiful of lies

Kees van Dongen