Quotes from Russell Chatham

Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer.

You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them.

My father said being an artist is the shortest road to the poor house , claiming "real" work is something you don't like. I ignored him through oppositional behavior, later reasoning that only an idiot sets out to find the poor house , not to mention devote himself to something he does not love. Instead, I discovered an interesting back road to the unknown , and deliberately without a safety net.