Distew

“attributes of our diverse and beguiling world have been recruited into a worthy medium.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

“The world doesn’t make itself easy to draw. The safe route is to mimic others’ tried-and-true formulas that limit the complexity. The dangerous route is to push the limits of your eyesight and try to invent ways for your pen to keep up.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

“Artists create records of transitory moments, appearing to stop their clocks. They help us believe that some things aren’t transitory at all but rather remain beautiful, true, majestic, sad, or joyful over many lifetimes—and here is the proof, painted in oils, carved in marble, stitched into quilts.”
― Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me

“The only work really worth doing — the only work you can do convincingly — is the work that focuses on the things you care about.”
― David Bayles, Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking