Saturday, December 27, 2008

I Am Floating Free - Like A Drunk In A Midday Choir*




Fig. 1. Henri Matisse - Le bonheur de vivre, 1905-06


'I am unable to make any distinction between the feeling I get from life and the way I translate that feeling into painting.'

Henri Matisse


* 'Like a bird on a wire, / Like a drunk in a midnight choir / I have tried in my way to be free.' (from Bird On A Wire by Leonard Cohen)


Addendum: At First Because I Had To Be - Now Because I Want To Be




Johnny Cash - Bird On A Wire (1994)