Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.
Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.
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.
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.
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.
Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.
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.
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.
Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
In the art game we do our own cooking.
You are responsible for understanding your limitations.
Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.
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.
I'll put into words my experience as it is unfolding now in my life... in such a way that I might find comfort in knowing that someone else has the same thoughts and experiences.
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.
Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
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.
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.
Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.
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.
You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
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