To all the collectors who feel they got ripped off with “fake” art from Andy Warhol:

A recent report in Vanity Fair stated that as many as one in six Warhol works is a fake. According to the expose, works that Warhol “discussed or produced in the company of Factory assistants have been denied (as being authentic by the Warhol Estate), despite multiple affidavits from those assistants.”

The question remains: Was Andy even present when those art pieces were made in his New York City studio, known as the Factory? 

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My art is like dancing; I have to let God lead.

“Because we don’t know when we will die, we get to think of life as an inexhaustable well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that is so deeply part of your being that you can’t even conceive of your life without it. Perhaps four or five times more, perhaps not even that. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise? Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.”

From The Sheltering Sky
—Paul Bowles

Is an artist born or made?

While you may be born an artist doesn’t mean you have discovered that being an artist is your dharma, or purpose in life. There are many distractions.

In the main, family and society follow a program of conformity, a rigid form of unrelenting pressure that does not support the artist and his work. An artist must not only possess talent, he must have the courage to manifest that talent in the world. Without an unbending will to create and continue creating, the artist is lost, and no one can save such a victim from himself. 

It is truly simple to understand, much easier that getting lie and lay straight.

A craft can be taught; it can be learned, such as drawing, pottery, and other forms that require design.

Art cannot be taught; it can, however, be unleashed—as the power of creation demands it.