Mitchell Pluto

Radio 109 Zep Tepi Pamela Jeanne Ott Ingate collection These are primitive beginnings in art, such as one usually finds in ethnographic collections or at home in one's nursery. Do not laugh, reader! Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in their having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved from corruption at an early age. Parallel phenomena are provided by the works of the mentally diseased; neither childish behaviour nor madness are insulting words here, as they commonly are. All this is to be taken very seriously, more seriously than all the public galleries, when it comes to reforming today's art.     Paul Klee

Persephone in the Chamber of Reflections  “An artist must have imagination. An artist who does not use his imagination is a mechanic.”  ― Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

the weight of a dream                                               Surrealism:  Search for a path of knowledge and salvation..attention to everything that lifts man above himself, at least to draw him out of himself.  Ferdinand Alquié

Pamela Ingate Collection  pottery poets  "When you are linked to everyone there are no enemies"        Alejandro Jodorowsky 

close encounter Jared Shear collection   "Have we any right to assume that the Creator works by intellectual powers like those of man?".  "May we not believe that a living optical instrument might thus be formed as superior to one of glass, as the works of the Creator are to man?" Charles Darwin 

Michael Dunning Collection may moon in scorpio  The dignity of the artist lies in his duty of keeping awake the sense of wonder in the world. In this long vigil he often has to vary his methods of stimulation; but in this long vigil he is also himself striving against a continual tendency to sleep. Marc Chagall

the planetarium of ma'at  The planets chime a wonderful tone with the Earth's geomagnetic pull. The novice ear can tune into the invisible trails the planets follow. The song is a template for flowers and other pleasant miracles.                                                  MP