Wild Salmon Among Rocks

The primary distinction of the artist
is that they must actively cultivate that state
which most people, necessarily, must avoid:
the state of being alone.
~ James Baldwin

Song-Film: Oh What A Life

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Wild Salmon Looks Out

All good things --- trout as well as eternal salvation ---
come by grace and grace comes by art
and art does not come easy.
~ Norman Maclean

Song-Film: Oh What A Life 
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Wild Salmon Reds Spawning

Here are worlds of experience
beyond the world of aggressive man,
beyond history, beyond science.
The mood and qualities of nature and
the relations of great art
are difficult to define; we can grasp them
only in the depths of our perceptive spirit.
~ Ansel Adams

Song-Film: Oh What A Life
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Salmon's Face

The secret of the creative life
is often to feel at ease with your own embarrassment.
We are paid to take risks, to look silly.
Some people, like racing car drivers
are paid to take risks in a more concrete way.
We are paid to take risks in an emotional way.
The film critic is like a medical examiner.
He gets the cadaver on the table, he opens it up,
and tries to figure out why it died.
The filmmaker is like the pregnant mother
who is simply trying nurture this thing.
You have to keep the medical examiner
out of the delivery room because he will get in there
and he will kill that baby.
~ Paul Schrader, interviewed by Terry Gross,
Fresh Air (from Heron Dance)

Song-Film: Oh What A Life 
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Wild Salmon Leaps Up Waterfall

Anyhow, all work that is worth while
has got to be memory work.
Even with a model before you in the quiet light of a studio
there must come a time when you have
what you want to know from the model,
when the model had better be sitting behind you than before,
and unless such a time as this does come,
it is not likely the work will get below the surface.
It would be easy to divide artists into two classes:
those who grow so much within themselves
as to master technique by the force of their need,
and those who are mastered by technique and become stylists.
~ Robert Henri, from The Art Spirit (from Heron Dance)

Song-Film: Oh What A Life 
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