Any attempt to identify particular architectural structures is doomed to fail. Monet’s views present nothing of a factual nature; instead, the depicted objects ignite sensual “sparks” when they are condensed, with their surroundings and mood, into apparitions.


Monet himself said, oddly, that he wished he had been born blind, so as to regain what John Ruskin called the “innocence of the eye,” a perception without an awareness of what things are and what their substance consists of.


I’m living in a wonderland. I don’t know which way to turn: everything is superb and I want to do everything. So I’m using and wasting lots of paint doing tryouts… It’s terribly difficult, you need a palette made of diamonds and precious stones. As for blue and pink, there’s no shortage here.


Art is the only salvation from the horror of existence.


An artist must suffer for his art.


No one has ever written, painted, sculpted, modeled, built, or invented except literally to get out of hell.


The other night, a friend tells me he just doesn’t understand poetry, which is something I hear all the time when I tell people I am a poet. Which is a thing I get in that we are taught to strive for understanding when it comes to art. But it is also a thing I don’t get. You don’t listen to music or look at a painting and demand to understand it. You feel something or you don’t. I could work to understand something, but that’s not the only point or the point at all.


Art is a very free subject area where you get to observe the environment, creatures as well as our own thoughts. We can choose to show them in whatever way we wish to. Here are some examples to help you understand what art is all about. Give a piece of paper, all colors and brush and ask different people to come up with a picture of rocky mountain from a distance. You will get as many answers to the question you posed as many people attempting to answer. This is because every person has his own individual perception of Rocky Mountains, and thus, uses various color mixes to come up with a picture that he feels best relates with the original.


Theory and concept:

  • Science is theoretical.
  • Art is conceptual.

Art and science seem at first to be 2 very different disciplines. Science looks to help us understand how the world and the universe operate and help us thrive and live better lives. On the other hand, art first served as a means to document current life and is now more commonly a medium for self-expression and exploration. Art is a medium that allows human beings to express themselves and their thoughts differently.


As an artist, however, Ma is forever striving to achieve perfection in his work. Like he would in the very early stage of his career, Ma still draws obsessively every day. There was a time when Ma would work more than 10 hours a day, sleep in his office at night and would only return home once a week to have dinner with his family.

So which of his characters did he identify the most at the time?

Ma goes for Mo Dik, a villain in Chinese Hero. Mo Dik, says Ma, is a simple-minded person who gives up everything he owns, including his family members and loyal servant, not wishing to get distracted from his goal of achieving excellence in martial arts.

“Maybe it sounds crazy, but the truth is that I have never visited a bank, rode a bicycle or went to a hospital to get a health check done before I finished the final chapter of Fung Wan a few years ago,” Ma said. “But I never regretted devoting myself to creating art. It is my only passion and purpose in life,” he added, with a candidness that only small children are capable of.


Some scholars believe Picasso’s many relationships were essential to the progression of his art. Picasso invented a new style each time he fell in love with a new woman.