I've honestly often felt like sometimes that I am truly a poet at heart and not a painter, and have come back to writing poetry more often, recently. Reading some of my past work is always interesting, especially when I don't remember writing half of it. So, The following quote from Kandinsky fits me and my art, very well:
"Of all the arts, abstract painting is the most difficult. It demands that you know how to draw well, that you have a heightened sensitivity for composition and for colors, and that you be a true poet. This last is essential."
-Wassily Kandinsky
If I do say so myself, I have a natural sense of composition, enhanced from years of being a professional picture framer, and designer involves things like helping people pick the best shade of white from twenty choices, for example. (If the customer needs 20 choices, I know what colors I would use.) That ability to look at a stack of colors and instantly know which few you need to work with, is developed. What I really loved about the work was absorbing the thousands of different pieces of work by various artists that I came in contact with every day for years. So anyways, I guess my point is I agree with Kandinsky wholeheartedly.
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