About my history
For many years Atlanta visual artist Corey Barksdale's art creations has served art dealers and collectors in their search for a broad range of fine art paintings and collectibles.
For many years Atlanta visual artist Corey Barksdale's art creations has served art dealers and collectors in their search for a broad range of fine art paintings and collectibles.
“Everything you can imagine is real.” ― Pablo Picasso
“Miracles happen all the time. We’re here, aren’t we?” -Marilyn Nelson (Abba Jacob and Miracles)
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” ― Vincent Van Gogh
“Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.” -James Baldwin (No Name in the Street)
TRIBUTE TO JAZZ MUSIC I can feel its rhythm and beat, And also its pulsating pain, Its music flows freely, Through my arteries and veins! Its beats always echoes, Through the corridors of my mind, As I get wafted, on the wings of time! Its music gets synchronized, With my heart’s muffled beats, As I try to keep time, - With the tapping of my feet!
“Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen.” ― Leonardo da Vinciw
Work out. Ten laps. Chin ups. Look good. Steam room. Dress warm. Call home. Fresh air. Eat right. Rest well. Sweetheart. Safe sex. Sore throat. Long flu. Hard nodes. Beware. Test blood. Count cells. Reds thin. Whites low. Dress warm. Eat well. Short breath. Fatigue. Night sweats. Dry cough. Loose stools. Weight loss. Get mad. Fight back. Call home. Rest well.
“You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star.” ― Friedrich Nietzsche
“To be an artist is to believe in life.” – Henry Moore
“Art is a line around your thoughts.” – Gustav Klimt
“The true use of art is, first, to cultivate the artist’s own spiritual nature.” – George Inness
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso
“If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.” – Edward Hopper
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow up.” Picasso
“Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.” Merton
“We don’t make mistakes, just happy little accidents” Ross
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso
“A picture is a poem without words” Horace
“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke” Jerzy Kosinski
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso
“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do” Degas
“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” Van Gogh
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso
“Creativity takes courage. ” ― Henri Matisse
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso
““Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.” ― Pablo Picasso
“If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.” ― Émile Zola
“I dream my painting and I paint my dream.” ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.” ― Pablo Picasso
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.” ― Pablo Picasso
“The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom.”
“It is the duty of the younger Negro artist...to change through the force of his art that old whispering ‘I want to be white,’ hidden in the aspirations of his people, to ‘Why should I be white? I am a Negro—and beautiful!’” -Langston Hughes (The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, The Nation)
Caged Bird BY MAYA ANGELOU A free bird leaps on the back of the wind and floats downstream till the current ends and dips his wing in the orange sun rays and dares to claim the sky. But a bird that stalks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown...
