James K-M: Paintings

~ Mystery is a veil that the naive critic is seduced by.

~ Coming home to you is like coming home to a fire.

~ Every sound we hear has an object that represents it nearby.

~ I’m not gay, but I don’t know why.

~ Our possessions are gently watching us.

~ This space is shared by all the other realms we seek.

~ What’s the difference between the sitting Buddha and the teepee?

~ Not having an idea gives you time to appreciate the last one.

~ We study history to make the present obsolete.

~ History goes without saying.

~ What was perfect then is perfect now. That’s longevity.

~ Man is God’s best friend.

~ Something is most profound when it is wise and anonymous.

~ The truth hides within the boring, banal and simple.

~ There is much to do, but nothing to accomplish.

~ Pray through your DNA.

~ Pattern may be the only true man-made nature.

~ Axis is access.

~ Our fear of death protects death from us.

~ Does nature have memory?

~ Make the old new rather than the new new.

~ The painting is not the goal.

~ Colour-field is a space previously occupied by the visible world.

~ The pictographic represents our most innocent expression of time.

~ The only way to look at the world is artistically. The only way to look at art is metaphysically.

~ Keep giving the ‘thing of beauty’ away instead of asking its question over and over.

~ Identity is artifice.

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What has longevity?
A Matisse or Van Gogh painting,
Silence,
What a tree does, has longevity.

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Stop, startlingly, stop, stoically, stop.

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First we refine our language,
Then we refine our thoughts,
Then we refine ourselves out of existence.

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