Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or indeed everything that's ever been done. That knowledge is the key to sound mentoring.
Take your brush here and there like a bee in an alpine meadow. In other words, don't laboriously work on or try to finish off one particular part. Paint promiscuously.
Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
I'm a believer in moderation in all things, including moderation.
Seems those with money who don't worry about money have big walls.
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.
Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.
Sometimes you can be lucky enough to establish a working relationship with another artist who takes away the loneliness, particularly in travel and outdoor work.
Great paintings have gradations, large and small... They serve to lift the subject off the two-dimensionality of the canvas. Gradations are an essential abstract convention.
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.
Painters paint, and history continues to make fools of curators.
I required a destination that was worthy of many visits.
While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art must exist for you in a place beyond the judgment of others.
People suspend judgment in the presence of mystery.
Learning to focus and pay attention, if only for a short time, has been identified as a primary key to the development of human effectiveness.
Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.
Life is a passage through a museum of beauty.
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.
The guy may be totally motivated, connected and inspired, but if he doesn't know how to do it, he's not the guy to take out your appendix.
Prices need to be fair, appropriate and consistent.
Incompetence, in my books, is the failure of the critical faculties to interfere constructively with the natural flow.
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