Art Is Hard...But Worth It.

So, I originally called this blog "Art is Hard", but that is misleading. It is hard, but it is totally worth it. So while looking for another clever name to change it to, I stumbled across a list of printmaking quotes...Cause thats what I do. I make prints. I am born to make prints. So maybe I will change it to that, or maybe not. Its too late to make a decision like that.

So after finding these great quotes, it turned out I had the title in my head all along. Anyway, here are the best of the quotes I found. I like the love-hate relationship that a lot of people seem to have with the art of printmaking, and also the sense of humor about their craft. That's the way life should be. Love. Hate and Jokes...But without the hate, and lots and lots of really cool art to look at.


"I go to my studio everyday because one day I may go and the angel will be there. What
if I don't go and the angel comes?"
- Phillip Guston

"Printmaking is like a man who treats you badly, but you keep coming back!"
- Jenny Mathews

"Print like a vicious dog!"
- E. C. Cunningham

Printmaking is fun because it takes a perfectly simple process like drawing and makes it
as complicated and error prone as possible."
- George Bodmer

"If you know what you're doing, you're wasting your time."
- Buckminster Fuller

Print is dead."
- Dr. Egon Spengler, Ghostbusters

"You have to be somewhere at 8 o'clock in the morning everyday of your life, you might
as well be in the print shop."
- Fred Brian, Illinois Wesleyan University

When questioned about the exact reproduction of all prints in an edition, one should
reply: "Why, are you going to buy two of them...?"
- Ken Hale

"The proof is in the proof."
submitted by E. C. Cunningham

"Printmaking is hard work."
- SIUC print studio, on a sign, in red, white, and blue, with USA map
submitted by Ray Noelle

"Printmaking rocks."
- origin disputed, Millikin University, ca. 2001, as a result of listening to the
Stooges while printmaking
submitted by Ray Noelle

Hello.

Once upon a time...
When I was your age we didn't have a computer! Ok well maybe we did but it was only Dos. We eventually got a computer with windows when I was in 9th grade. After that we had some other computers, and eventually I inherited my brothers old lap top computer. We've come a long way baby!
The point is, we didn't have twitters (whatever those are), books for our faces, we did have space that was ours, but it was personal, it was called our bedrooms. At some point in my life livejournal was created. I am not going to lie, I made one and even tried blogging(its college I am supposed to be trying new experiences right?)!
Then came myspace, and then came facebook. Anyway, the point is....what was the point? I don't remember anymore. Oh well. When I got my first digital camera in 2007 I created a blogspot ( ericfrankenstein.blogspot.com ) and I blogged on my myspace, and occassionally the livejournal. Well I dont do that anymore! I felt like I was doing nothing but complaining about stupid crap all the time. Noone cares how my day went, or how sad I feel about whatever, and since my myspace page ( myspace.com/eric_art ) is pretty much for my art only, I didnt want to fill it with personal un-art related ramblings.
This is why I felt the need to create this new blogspot. Hopefully it will be more coherent and more to the point of art and art related writings.
This is what I hope this page will be:
-a place to show personal art work, with discriptions and information
- stories about my personal run ins with art on a daily basis
-my personal artistic philosophy
-things I think are cool, and art-news worthy. such as: movies, music, books, etc.
Yeah stuff like that.

Anyway. Thats all for now.