Saturday, December 19, 2009

I thought this was really inspiring...

And Lord knows I need a little inspiration 2 days before my back-to-back finals.

"After six decades of very private painting, Ms. Herrera sold her first artwork five years ago, at 89."

"I do it because I have to do it; it’s a compulsion that also gives me pleasure. I never in my life had any idea of money and I thought fame was a very vulgar thing. So I just worked and waited. And at the end of my life, I’m getting a lot of recognition, to my amazement and my pleasure, actually."

"When pressed about what looks to some like a sensual female shape in the painting, she said: 'Look, to me it was white, beautiful white, and then the white was shrieking for the green, and the little triangle created a force field. People see very sexy things — dirty minds! — but to me sex is sex, and triangles are triangles.'"

"Only my love of the straight line keeps me going."

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