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.
Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.
Pay no attention to the less courageous.
Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.
Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
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.
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.
Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.
You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.
Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.
Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
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.
As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
Every task is given equal importance - that way I can pick and choose my tasks based on the ebb and flow of my creative metabolism.
Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.
Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?
Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.
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