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Play is your route to mastery.
Art is a perfectly complete cause.
Could rivalry be a productive system?
In the art game we do our own cooking.
Pay no attention to the less courageous.
I can hide as much as I want in my colours
Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.
Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.
You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.
Having a favorite color is like having a favorite lung.
You are responsible for understanding your limitations.
Having a favourite colour is like having a favourite lung.
Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
Vibrancy is only as effective as the mastering of restraint.
Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.
Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.
Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.
You are solely responsible for doing the work required to become better.
Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.
As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.
Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
New surroundings have a way of returning attention to areas that may have become rote.
These days, if you happen to be a poet you have to sing your words to get your ideas out.
As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.
You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.
Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
Why all these years have I been agreeably turning down the stereo every time the phone rings?
Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.
Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.
To return to awareness is to notice this new world with baby-eyes, and to appreciate her strangeness.
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.
Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.
Art is sometimes likened to a mirror... an expression of universal human truth, executed with a degree of skill.
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.
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.
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.
Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.
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.
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.
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.
The 'wandering studio' gathers and stores experiences, takes chances with the unfamiliar and requires a measure of self-trust. Mistakes are part of the change of scene.
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.
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.