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• Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative patterns. While "ready-mades" do show up from time to time, they are rare. Art need not be what is seen-but what is to be seen. "Nature," said James McNeill Whistler, "is usually wrong."

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  Art, Imagination, Creative

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• Now familiar with my own particular voice and accent, my Dragon app prints out exactly what I speak into my iPad. Twenty years ago this miracle would be unthinkable.

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  Technology, Voice, Ipads

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• My app is the same juicy paint used by Vincent Van Gogh; my screen is the woven canvas of Titian. Painting by hand, I've come to figure, is a certain kind of love.

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  Technology, Hands, Juicy

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• Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.

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  Art, Thinking, Imagination

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• Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

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  Joy, May, Welcome

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• Mountains in all their moods are symbols of something greater, something worth aspiring to. Mountains are powerful, dangerous, beautiful, noble and mysterious. Mountains get respect.

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  Beautiful, Powerful, Mountain

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• Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.

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  Writing, Artist, Vocabulary

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• You're right, super-realism is back in style.

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  Style, Realism

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• Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

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  Time, Yesterday, Right Now

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• Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.

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  Creative

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• The head governs, the heart assists, the body acts.

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  Work, Heart, Body

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• For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.

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  Drawing, Spontaneity, Tyranny

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• Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?

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  Competition, Suffering, Who Cares

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• Many of us knuckle-dragging brush-painters think that 'behind the times' is part of our job description. Why deny ourselves the authentic journey of a time-honoured form?

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  Jobs, Journey, Thinking

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• Which is better--feeling good or getting good?

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  Feel Good, Feelings

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• Landscape painting tends to fall under more academic controls. I must say I often like working within these controls. It gives me the feeling that I'm taking part in a noble tradition.

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  Fall, Giving, Feelings

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• Sentimental titles are the last bastion of scoundrels, and can add significant barf to an already barfy work.

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  Titles, Add, Lasts

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• As you do your work, you discover what you love to do.

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  What You Love

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• According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.

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  Sleep, People, Creative

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• When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise

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  Attitude, Praise, Paint

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• Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.

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  Titles, Factual, Pure

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• In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.

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  Art, Companionship, Late

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• By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

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  Thinking, Careers, Has Beens

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• I simply like the monumentality of the subjects - the opportunity for metaphor and the varied light that comes with high altitudes.

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  Opportunity, Light, Metaphor

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• As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

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  Photography, Artist, Loyal

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