Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth” … Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn’t exactly the real world, but it said something real? – Blue Balliett

Picasso said that art is a lie, but a lie that tells the truth” … Calder wondered what Picasso had meant. Was it that art wasn’t exactly the real world, but it said something real? – Blue Balliett

Growing up in NYC,The broken sidewalks, graffiti filled subways, and humid Laundromats, did not offer solace. I found solace in the strings of my violin, in my ballet slippers at the studio, and while gazing at frescoes in the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was always in the Arts that my soul was replenished. – Susan Anne Russell

Growing up in NYC,The broken sidewalks, graffiti filled subways, and humid Laundromats, did not offer solace. I found solace in the strings of my violin, in my ballet slippers at the studio, and while gazing at frescoes in the halls of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. It was always in the Arts that my soul was replenished. – Susan Anne Russell