The sale of my parents' home will complete next Monday 15th September ( Read more... )

1. An artist’s conduct in his life:

- An artist should not lie to himself or others
- An artist should not steal ideas from other artists
- An artist should not compromise for themselves or in regards to the art market
- An artist should not kill other human beings
- An artist should not make themselves into an idol
- An artist should not make ( Read more... )

It's from a televised interview that's on the BBC iPlayer in the arts section. A great interview that's a privilege and a gift to watch… like listening to a great teacher giving you a one-to-one lesson. Wow! I really can't urge people enough to watch and listen. She expands the mind and just blew me away.

"…pundits explain that writers have [a ( Read more... )

Somebody, you know who
You are, you're everybody,
Stop.
Leave me alone.
Don't
Touch me
Because i want to stop
Making a difference
I want to leave from here
There's no more little joy
In this place anymore
I can't understand
What the desire is to
Bring all the needles in
When I can't pop
Like a balloon
So I'll stop trying
To make a difference
If you'll stop
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Fantastic speech given to the camera in one single take by Lord (Kenneth) Clark, near the end of the last episode of his 1969 television series Civilisation. If people the world over believed in the beliefs he listed then we'd have world peace. Simply breathtaking, wonderful and not to be forgotten but rather applied to one's own life everyday.

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"I think it absolutely essential to civilisation that the male and female principles be kept in balance. I've observed that where at a party, men and women hive off to separate groups, the level of civilisation declines." ~ Lord (Kenneth) Clark, from the series Civilisation,1969

I think this seems to be still very much the case today. Look around ( Read more... )

Give me the rain
Give me the sun
I don't care what I have to endure
Now that I've begun...
I wish I could believe in my own words
It's easier to ask
Please dance with me.
It's been so long since I knew
What it is to spin.
Spin me with delirious abandon
In the same way I used to watch you dance.
Is that to be out of Control?
To dance with exuberance?
I want to ( Read more... )

Yes, I put all churches together in one basket in the title if this post.

A friend of mine was on the receiving end of an Anglican Church sermon yesterday saying that Equal Marriage is akin to "heresy" - a treason if you will (my words and understanding of what was meant by that so-called heresy). And my friend was justifiably upset. I'm sure I ( Read more... )

I'm just watching Perspectives - Gary Kemp - Kick Out The Jams. A programme shown on ITV last night. It was about the Young British Artists (YBAs) group who came out of the 1990s and Saatchi's Sensation exhibition 1997 at the Royal Academy in London which I saw at the time (I was twenty-seven myself) and still have the catalogue.

I'm wondering about ( Read more... )

It's official, I am going to study a BA degree in fine art (painting) at Wimbledon College of Art in September ( Read more... )