{"id":304,"date":"2011-01-23T21:37:26","date_gmt":"2011-01-23T21:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cjrecord.wordpress.com\/?p=273"},"modified":"2016-03-25T10:02:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-25T10:02:31","slug":"quote-of-the-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/quote-of-the-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_429\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-429\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/william-dobell-self-portrait-68.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-429 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/william-dobell-self-portrait-68.jpg?resize=500%2C313\" alt=\"Self Portrait by William Dobell\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/william-dobell-self-portrait-68.jpg?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/william-dobell-self-portrait-68.jpg?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-429\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Self Portrait by William Dobell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing. &#8211; William Dobell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I love this. There are times when our art might require us to create something realistic and exact, but I think this guy is onto something when he says \u2018a sincere artist tries to create something that is, in itself, a living thing.\u2019 I think this is hard to accomplish, but as an artist, there have been times when I perhaps felt like I was pouring so much of myself or my feeling into something that it took on some special character.<\/p>\n<p>I also interpret this as meaning that a sincere artist isn\u2019t just a copyist. A sincere artist sees beyond or into what is in front of him\/her and uses their ability to create an image that allows others to see something in a different light.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A sincere artist is not one who makes a faithful attempt to put on to canvas what is in front of him, but one who tries to create something which is, in itself, a living thing. &#8211; William Dobell I love this. There are times when our art might require us to create something [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[8,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative","category-journals"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/william-dobell-self-portrait-68.jpg?fit=500%2C313&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4XnUB-4U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/436"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carolandkarl.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}