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.
Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
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.
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.
Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.
You are responsible for understanding your limitations.
Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.
I can hide as much as I want in my colours
You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.
The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.
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