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Previously unseen boo-boos come at you like tattoos on a teenage girl.
We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.
Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.
In acrylics, what you lose on the straights you make up for on the corners.
By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.
For a lot of us drawing is a tyranny which impedes freshness and spontaneity.
When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise
I always thought signing was an artist's honour and guarantee of authenticity.
True muses stay dreams forever unless artists connect them to exploratory work.
Sometimes you have to go through something else to find what you're looking for.
In painting you cover up your sins and everyone thinks you're naturally talented.
Most of my contemporary grant-getters are now doing something other than painting.
Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.
Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.
Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings.
Properly channeled, common feelings of inadequacy lead to powers of accomplishment.
In life and art it's better to be an enthusiastic amateur than a jaded professional.
In the companionship of art we are all of a time. Early or late we are to be shared.
A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.
According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.
Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.
When you serve your passions, proficiency gradually takes over and becomes habitual.
Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.
No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.
With materialization in play you have magic in your fingers and you become the wizard.
Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.
It is necessary to put yourself out for rejection, and accept that you will be rejected.
Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.
Starving artist' is acceptable at age 20, suspect at age 40, and problematical at age 60.
For all of us, self-briefing before going out or starting a project sharpens artistic wit.
Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.
Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.
Start with the foreground. Compositions fail when the foreground is treated as an afterthought.
When shucked and released from its edges, the windowless subject stands alone as its own thing.
Visual tonics such as 'timed creativity' need to be introduced to refresh and refurbish the muse.
By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.
This evening, while signing my name on a painting, I was thinking I might stop signing my cheques.
Novelty is vital to the stimulation of life... New neural paths are sparked by caving in to notions.
As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.
Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.
We are not born focusing. It's an acquired skill that requires initial effort and constant upgrading.
One compositional element suggests and asks for another. This is what makes the activity interesting.
Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.
An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.
Priests are often well-meaning people who haven't yet looked too thoroughly into comparative religion.
Sometimes... we suffer from the tyranny of comparison. Contests, competitions, thrive on it. Who cares?
Paintings, like tombstones, will last a good five hundred years, well into twenty or thirty generations.
Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.
When I'm in the studio I often hunger for the road. And when away I long for the efficiency of the studio.
Flat, uninteresting parts of paintings are, in fact, a ruse to get the viewer to see what needs to be seen.