someone is standing with me when I work
3rd June 2017 | for Creatives | creative process, inspiration/the muse, painting, Kinukoy Yamabe Craft |
"Ever since my childhood I always feel someone is standing with me when I work. It guides and leads me, and criticizes what I have painted. It calls my attention to the beauty of anything that could be the personification of sensibility. I am not sure what it is, but it is always there."
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