Art imitating Life

~ Gottfried

Feeling good about yourself? Ask a kid to draw a picture of you. Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on walls. No artist tolerates reality. Procrastination, the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Almost every cartoonist, when he’s sitting down to draw a funny face, if you watch him closely, his mouth is gonna curl to the expression he’s drawing. But when I write a story – I know it’s going to sound ridiculous and infantile – I would, in a way, start living it. 

Art is anything you can get away with. Imaginations are more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand. 

Every artist has thousands of bad drawings in them and the only way to get rid of them is to draw them out. Learning to draw is really a matter of learning how to see correctly and that means a good deal more than merely looking with the eye. 

Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist when we grow up. There’s no healthier drug than creativity. Creativity is nothing but a mind set free. An art attack? The overwhelming feeling of having so many creative ideas at once and not enough time to do them. 

Being an artist means forever healing your own wounds and at the same time endlessly exposing them. An artist must have his measuring tools not in the hand, but in the eye. We don’t make mistakes, just little happy accidents. To be an artist is to believe in life. 

Life, is the art of drawing without an eraser. 

©️ Gottfried. All rights reserved

34 thoughts on “Art imitating Life”

  1. “Life, is the art of drawing without an eraser.”

    Oh So True Mr Gottfried The Rest of Nature

    Doesn’t use an eraser

    So Why Should We

    With SMiLes

    And True THere is No Truer
    Joy Than A Childhood Dance
    With No Instructions From Before

    The Same With A Non-Sense Song

    Full of Joy Far Beyond Words Just

    The MuSiC oF Life God Yes Set Free

    You KNoW mY FRiEnD You Feel You Sense
    Every Inhale We Take Exhale We CREaTE NoW

    Whether Peace
    And Love or Not

    Is A New Testament
    of Life That is Never Fully
    Limited From Our Breathes of Before

    Of Course As Long as We Take Care
    of Our Health and Don’t Waste Our Potentialities

    Away true Health is Much More Than Physical It is
    Well Being of Increasing Human Potentials in Living Breath

    of Creativity

    Each and
    Every Breath
    What We Do

    Both in Positive
    And Negative Ways

    Of New and Old Testaments

    For what May come to be Next For

    Real
    Now
    And New

    Even With SMiLes
    of Creativity Never

    Felt Sensed To Do Before

    PerhapS A Saddest Story
    oF ALL is When Human Beings
    Believe They Can Trap God in

    Words And Tell God What God

    Can and Cannot and Must Not and Must Do

    Hehe The Wind is HOwling Free Still at even the

    ‘Notion’
    of Words

    True Waves
    of Ocean Free
    As Well Water Above
    Water Below Oceans
    Dance and Sing Free

    With or
    Without

    Us
    For Real

    So Free to Create
    As No Two Waves are
    Identical Nor are We

    Unless We Try

    to Trap

    Wind in
    A Jar and CaLL it Free..:)

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      1. “Waves don’t die”

        Not Unlike Poetry

        Prompts Waves Continue

        To Fall and Rise Yet True Hehe

        Though Some Pebbles and Stones

        Sink Shortly After Making Waves

        Returning to Calm Waters

        of Peace Mr
        Gottfried

        Other

        Pebbles
        And Stones
        Just Seem to
        Keep on Falling
        Yet Never SinKinG MaKinG
        Even More Waves on Their

        Merry

        CoLoReD Ways…

        Yet EvenTuaLLY GRaViTY Rules…

        As Ponds Lakes And Ocean Come to Calm..:)

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          1. “Great clouds all over feel the darkness upon us”

            Ah Yes Mr Gottfried
            Key To Clouds And
            Sunshine Same

            Both

            Just
            Muse
            To Color
            Soul New to Give
            Away Free Receiving

            Same
            Sun And
            Clouds Shed

            Life Giving

            Rain
            And Green

            All The Other
            Colors Just More
            Icing Of The Life

            Cake
            To Give Away

            Free “Easy Bake”

            NoW
            NeW

            iN

            Deed 🎂

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