Excess

Lifting
Copyright 2012 Addie Hirschten
Oil on Canvas
12" x 16"
Prints available on Fine Art America

In matters of art I confess that I do not hate excess. 

Moderation never seemed to me to be a sign of vigorous nature. 

I like these excesses of health, these outbreaks of will which inscribe themselves in works like inflamed asphalt in the heart of a volcano. 

-Charles Beaudelaire