Saturday 28 August 2021

Quotes 215: Michele Cassou & Stewart Cubley

"To keep your process flowing, to feel the enjoyment of creation, you first need to go where it is easy. Easy means ripe. Go where you are attracted, whether it be toward a detail or a large shape. While you work on the part that is easy, other parts will mature in you, and they will be ready and waiting. You move step by step, from the easiest to the easiest. It is never tedious or tiring because there is no need to force anything. Depth resides more in surrendering to spontaneity than in hardworking struggle." 

–– Michele Cassou (b. 1942), French-born American artist, teacher, and author and Stewart Cubley, American artist, teacher, and author. 

Source: Michele Cassou and Stewart Cubley. Life, Paint and Passion: Reclaiming the Magic of Spontaneous Expression. New York: TarcherPerigree, 1996.

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