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Tear-stained flops are necessary. They're the gift you give yourself when you're willing to fly.

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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.
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Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.
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Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.
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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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A millionaire is a person who is free, who does what she loves, who has unlimited materials, her choice of tools, abundance, inspiration, freedom and an inflated sense of entitlement to have, create and get more.
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You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.
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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.
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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.
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Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.
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Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
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Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.
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Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
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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.
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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.
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Make a searching and fearless inventory of your creative curiosity.
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Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
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Pay no attention to the less courageous.
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