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.
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.
Play is your route to mastery.
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.
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.
As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.
Why can't we all just acknowledge that 'nature' - that is, 'sex' or 'erotic' images, which are really just 'attracters' are everywhere. Of course a flower looks like what it looks like - that's what it is - to a bee.
Art is a perfectly complete cause.
I value the momentum of making the list and the drive to tick. Sometimes I add stuff I've already accomplished so I can get going on my feelings of accomplishment.
You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.
Some artists approach their 'why?' intuitively, and work toward giving it a voice through their technical skill. Others begin as technicians, and develop, or discover, their 'why?' as they become stronger communicators.
Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.
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