Why do we create/paint, at all?

[Klaire aka Mystic Silks]

Have you ever stopped and asked, " Why am I painting this?"
What is the purpose of picking up that brush and appyling paint to a canvas?
Or doing any sort of painting at all?
Is it for recognition? Or the fact that we are leaving some part of ourselves behind, when we leave this earthly life? Or must we capture something of life, and place it in a painting, so that others may also appreciate beauty?
I wonder about that. As an artist , what do you think?

[Klaire aka Mystic Silks]

And, you're doing it well!

[Carson Collins]

Jackson Pollack, when asked to comment on his own paintings by a reporter from Life magazine, is famously said to have remarked, "It's like looking at a bed of flowers; you don't tear your hair out over what it means."

Mark Rothko had a completely different story: He sought, and achieved, the expression of a deeply personal spirituality within the then-dominant paradigm of Abstract Expressionism.

Sorry, Paul; much as I admire both of those two Big White Male Genius Modern Art Icons, to lump them together as you have done is just plain ignorant.

Nothing personal, but it's a flimsy argument, if you'll pardon my saying so.

[Paul Freidin]

Carson, Who is arguing? When I lumped Pollock, DeKooning and Rothko together, I was talking about a school of painting. Of course Rothko is differerent. He wasn't an Action Painter like the others. What is your point? I'm not a talker I'm, a doer. Like I said before, look at my work it speaks much louder than your words, or mine.

[Monika Macken]

I think that I paint because I can't live without it. When I hear or see somthing that inspirates me, I take the brush and I paint. Maybe because I want to paint a world I want to live in, because this world of mine is more beautiful that the real world. I paint images , which are living in my soul, images of some secret universe, that I want to share with others. But I don't know if they understand what I want to say...

[Klaire aka Mystic Silks]

Carson, excellent point.

[Carson Collins]

DeKooning sucks.

[Paul Freidin]

Your opinion Carson. When you grow up you can become a critic.

[Monika Macken]

De Kooning is a great artist. Period. And I don't think that this is an answer to the question.

[Carson Collins]

4 Q 2

[GalleryAdmin]

Now now gentlemen lets keep this civil please, now let's shake hands and agree to differ. :)

Thank you

[Carson Collins]

Again, apologies; my definition of "argument" is "a discussion involving inference", and it was never my intention to offend anyone. These artists' forums are just something that I do for entertainment.

"No reason" as Jimi said, "to get excited."

[Paul Freidin]

I accept.

HAHAHAHA. I guess we nearly got kicked off the forum. I've always avoided forums, now I know why.