Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.
There's a saying that goes, 'The universe gives you a whisper, then a nudge, then a push and then an anvil on your head.
Play is your route to mastery.
Half of the pleasure of painting and feeling the joy of the creative act is sharing it with others and the feeling of connection. It could just be the colour. But it is something that someone other than you has seen and felt. It is momentous. It is magic.
Study the processes and methods of those who are better at it than you... there's someone who knows something you don't, who has honed a skill more than you have. Rival your rival.
Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.
Remember the importance of phrases... a piece of something, an entry, a moment, a mark. This adjusts the pressure of the giant task of creating the perfect masterwork.
Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.
Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.
Pay no attention to the less courageous.
Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
Scientists tracking mirror neurons noticed that a monkey will get excited not just when holding a banana, but also when seeing someone else holding a banana.
Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.
Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.
Does an artist truly need to understand her times in order to create? I'm not sure. We're all sitting in a context. It's a market.
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.
Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.
Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.
You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.
Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
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