A Painter’s Statement in

Six Aphorisms


By David M. Stallings



I.


The world is full of harsh, loud vulgarity.

I want to bring forth a soft, quiet Beauty.


II.


Sensibility leans towards the

timeless, the subtle, and the beautiful.


III.


A painting is always more than the subject it depicts.


IV.


The poetry of a thing depicted

is often more important than the thing depicted.


V.


Great work doesn’t take you to another place,

It vitalizes the place you are in.


VI.


Be it a Life self forged

Or one bound by Fate,

Two things are certain:

Life is hard, Love is Great.