Living in my head isn't fun sometimes. A kajillion thoughts are there at any one time, and the only place I find peace is at the easel.

Janice Tanton

Categorized in : Sometimes Fun Finding Peace

If you would listen to every stroke of my brush, I would never need to speak again.

creative speak needs

You can either buy shoes or paint.

shoes paint

I paint to understand my world and my place in it. I paint to pray, to curse, to sort, to number, to structure, to destructure, to bleed, to preserve, to recognize, to see, to hide, to show, to tell, to think, to stop thinking, to detest, to love, to act, to be still, to laugh, to cry, to detest, but mostly to love for now I am human, but in a few short years I will be something else.

numbers years thinking

There are many things one thinks about in a painting. Often, it's how to handle your chosen medium and how to best reveal the light in a three-dimensional form on a two-dimensional surface.

light two thinking

I saw a great bumper sticker that read: 'Do something that scares you every day.' That really stuck with me. I try to live like that.

scare risk trying

I care about the human race, and I strive to understand it.

care race humanity

Creatives are feared and ridiculed... and at the same time highly valued for their ability to see things that others do not.

ability-to-see ability

Sometimes I misstep into something perhaps I shouldn't, but with age comes a thick, high pair of rubber boots to wade through the barnyard. We should all have to get to the dirt and 'muck out' at some point in our lives.

wade boots age

I colour for a living. When I am a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is that I am more wrinkled. When I am not being a good artist, the only difference between me and a child is every difference imaginable.

differences artist children