I think that we all carry the divine within us.
The composition happens as the work progresses. Often the messy background makes it easy to disperse shapes as needed. I'd rather it took over me than I took over it.
I often use an old canvas and I particularly enjoy painting over something I've already done, allowing bits to come jumping through accidentally.
When I became tired of oil painting at one stage, I used collage and this proved to be influential in the design and composition of my later works.
People and things have edges, but where does a landscape stop?
And yet my life seemed to be just one big mass of people. I would never ask some people in for tea to fill up time. I just never would do it. Whenever I seemed to have a quiet hole, I would paint. That was what I would choose to do to fill up the time.
Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.
If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
The rapid growth in many of our suburbs has spawned a booming construction industry eager to hire low wage immigrants who gladly fill these jobs, many of them happy to be paid in cash, free of federal and state taxes.
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.