What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
Childhood means simplicity. Look at the world with the child's eye - it is very beautiful.
Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb.
Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
Every relationship between persons causes a picture of each to take form in the mind of the other, and this picture evidently is in reciprocal relationship with that personal relationship.
'Pomegranate,' started with my imagining a bullet going through the fruit and causing it to bleed. My initial associations were with pomegranates in old masters painting and their Judeo-Christian symbolism.
I found it an interesting portrait of a marriage in exploring notions of how one partner supports the other, whilst not jeopardizing the greater good - which is the family.
I had long ago become a creation, a public image made to be consumed, piled on top of a precarious shell of a little boy wanting to be loved.