“Art and love are the same thing:
It’s the process of seeing yourself
in things that are not you.”
— Chuck Klosterman
Happy Valentine’s Day, my friends!
One of my biggest intentions for our new Moment Sketchers website this year is to be more active on the blog throughout each month. I’d love for it to be a place you can come to for ideas and inspiration in between our monthly challenges.
While I’ve got a few ideas in mind for the blog so far (many of which include featuring you and your sketches here, so get your sketchbooks ready), today I’d simply like to take a moment to share some inspiring words with you from one of my favorite artists, Vincent Van Gogh — words that feel especially fitting to share on Valentine’s day:
I also love the full quote these particular words come from:
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.”
I don’t know about you, but there are days when I don’t always feel the sketching love. I set out to sketch, but struggle to find the flow — I feel stuck, either in my process or short on inspiration. This often happens when I’m out of my sketching rhythms; when I’ve taken too long off between sketches and feel rusty or out of shape when I pick up a paintbrush again.
So when I came across Van Gogh’s words this afternoon, they felt like the perfect Valentine’s inspiration to share today. In a way, they almost felt like an exhortation — that even when we’re feeling rusty or out of the flow, perhaps the best way for us to start over is by returning to the love of art and creativity that drew us to sketching in the first place.
And to trust that every sketch we do in love, will be well done indeed.
