i have been exhausted..that is why i haven't written sooner...almost like a hangover..don't know if it is depression or what..my ideas aren't depressed except for last thursday night which was the worse in years.
were you trained as as artist or did you just pick it up....i love when the painting looks back at you no matter where you stand...it brings it alive...I read Hesse's Siddhartha(sp) a long time ago but don't remember -i just remember suffering..i think...oh of course you know that many famous people who are creative are bipolar...I love all kinds of art..one of my favorite is john marin, an american. he made his watercolors move...i didn't know anything about american art until an american artist told me about Charles Burchfield who I simply adore...i haven't seen a Burchfield I haven't liked, and another american artist who told me about Marin and some others...I had just known about the European artists.
Do you have to be in the mood or do you just have to just sit down and inspiration strikes?
I just bought one of the authors you mentioned on amazon.com with the Chinese dectective and put a bid on the author on ebay. I have about 1000 books in my apartment to read. I buy usually in "lots" on ebay of the frivolous easy reading books...so I accumulated a lot...they wind up costing twenty and thirty cents a book.
Today I was thinking it might be harder to love an independent person...they don't have a quality of neediness that you find in more dependent people even though they need love probably more...what do you think? It is fine to disagree with me...lol
Bobby
ps john marin http://www.nga.gov/cgi-bin/pinfo?Object=66783+0+none
charles burchfield http://store.encore-editions.com/art...urchfield.html