“Life is not long enough to be an artist” - Jean Claude Roy

This beautiful documentary about Jean Claude Roy – TIME & COLOR – comes from film producers KinoLore Productions. According to the filmmaker’s description:

“TIME & COLOR is a portrait of the life and artistic journey of Jean Claude Roy, a prolific expressionist-colorist artist who has spent decades capturing the landscapes and communities of Newfoundland and Labrador. Weary of the modern-day rush, Jean Claude packs his canvas and sets out for Battle Harbour. Surrounded by the broken and abandoned structures of a once vibrant fishing outpost, he explores his own life and legacy as he paints and listens to the stories of locals.”

One of my favorite quotes: “Life is not long enough to be an artist… a good one. When you start being good you cannot walk anymore. You cannot move anymore… I’ve got the advantage over the realist painter… I don’t draw a straight line… I can always splash paint on my canvas.”

Perhaps we, too, can learn to be comfortable in our skin and just paint what we want without caring about what others think.