Isle of the artist
Persona Gallery
The world of Joey Like and jlikeart is an informal space filled with isolated perspectives. A solitary style that comes from the profound admiration of influential pioneers such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Piet Mondrian, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Joan Miro and Keith Haring. Their provocative visions are what drives Like to display his own singularity. With abstract fractioning and codependent lines, the artist creates a pocket reality of approximate forms. He believes his designs are an open door perspective to a world between surface and substrate. So please view the works of this journeyman and offer up your own interpretations. Thank you for participating and enjoy. =)
Encouraging Quotes Collected By The Artist...
"There is nothing anyone can do to take your originality away from you."--Audrey Flack
"Penetrating vision and depth of feeling are more important than appearance."--Paul Klee
"I did not spring into the world fully equipped to paint the kind of pictures I want to paint."--Stuart Davis
"Painting is really extraordinary because it's nonverbal, it's non-temporal, it's non-translative. It's like you can't have a conversation with a monkey, but you can both paint pictures."--Matthew Ritchie
"If you try to make paintings that please everyone, you will be inhibiting your own creativity and most likely repeating what has been done before."--Ann Baldwin
"I believe what I do and do only what I believe; and woe to anybody who lays hands on my faith."--Arnold Schoenberg
"Outsider artists are becoming so popular that they're practically insiders."--Lisa Hunter
"When any any mark, the merest dot, is placed on a rectangle of paper, or on a canvas, new forces are brought into being."--Maurice de Sausmarez
"Luck beats skill in collecting--you never know where the opportunities are."--Stefan T. Edlis
"Hand-painted art that gives the illusion of depth depends on a deliberate rendering by the artist."--Frank Mulvey
"Not only does it make you look smart, but viewing art has been shown to reduce stress, letting you focus on the things that really matter."--31 Ways To Get Smarter In 2012 from Newsweek(1/9-1/16/12)
"It more and more appears to me that art is not an elite activity destined exclusively to be appreciated by a limited number of art lovers, but is meant for everyone, and it is in this spirit that I shall continue to work."--Keith Haring
"By diminishing expression we belittle our freedoms."--Joey Like
Photos From The Studio
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