“La obra de Maestro Pedro Nel Gómez, es la obra de un gran humanista que encontró en el arte su mejor aporte a la construccion de una sociedad de tiempo avanzado, donde las mujeres han sido protagonistas, los humildes los primeros, la denuncia social el centro y la lucha por los derechos humanos el eje de sus preocupaciones. Un artista adelantado a su época; tal vez incluso de esta.”
‘El arte es una fuerza increíble que lo mantiene a uno siempre inquieto, creativo, vivo...’
“I said to myself, ‘I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me—shapes and ideas near to me—so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn’t occurred to me to put them down.’ I decided to start anew to strip away what I had been taught.
I decided to start anew-to strip away what I had been taught, to accept as true my own thinking. This was one of the best times of my life. There was no one around to look at what I was doing, no one interested, no one to say anything about it one way or another. I was alone and singularly free, working into my own, unknown-no one to satisfy but myself. I began with charcoal and paper and decided not to use any color until it was impossible to do what I wanted to do in black and white. I believe it was June before i needed blue.“
- Georgia O’Keeffe
“From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.”
- Hokusai
