Jul 20, 2019
“Does that mean I don’t have to begin with the role models and attain their level of expertise before striking my own path?” the pupil asked.
“When you talk like that you are forgetting that besides the old role models you also have your own: yourself. You cannot hang on to the beards of the ancients. You must try to be your own life and not the death of another. For this reason the best painting method is the method of no method. Even if the brush, the ink, the drawing are all wrong, what constitutes your “I” still survives. You must not let the brush control you; you must control the brush yourself.”
Sea of Ink, Richard Weihe (Chapter 33)