“The imagination of the artist lives in the powers of his medium.”* One of the great difficulties of any teacher
is to open to students the grand opportunities afforded them by any medium. Beginning students are mostly concerned with
what to make not what are the possibilities of the medium or the exploration of
the medium to discover those possibilities.
Any minor study of medium leads to a sense of sincerity and gratefulness
that only polished stone or wood sanded to silk can illicit. There stands the exceptional art student
because there is where they must decide to whom to offer their gratefulness and
the medium will not allow the answer to be SELF.
*Clyde Kilby quoting Bernard Bosanquet in the book The Arts and the Christian Imagination
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