From a 2003 interview Russell Chatham did with The Bloomsbury Review ...Russell Chatham: ... develop your brain as much as possible. It broadens and deepens everything. All art comes first from the heart, the brain is the train that delivers it to the station.
The Bloomsbury Review: There's a metaphor that the mind is like a muscle, so it's important to keep it engaged.
RC: Everyone has seen examples of a state of mind, positive or negative, affecting physical health. People have been diagnosed with terminal cancer, said no i don't think so, and gone on to live when medical science they shouldn't have.
TBR: Georgia O'Keeffe must've been nearly 100, legally blind, yet still working with clay, staying engaged with the universe, and keeping herself young at heart. She kept the child alive, that innocent, sweet part of us I think is so essential to the creative process.
RC: Very important. Without vulnerability and innocence, things become cynical and hard, which ultimately disallows any kind of translation I look for in art, and that I hope to deliver. You can't afford to become bitter in any way, or else the world will no longer be able to flow through you.
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