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Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.

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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.
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Stretch your goals... In other words, think big and think far off.
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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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As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.
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If an artist comes intuitively from the point of design, notan - lightness/darkness - is natural.
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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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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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Joy is my energy and energy is my powerhouse.
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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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In modern times we are often encouraged to protect our ego-force and individuality by securing a private world in which to develop our unique artistic voice. Many artists find themselves solo-paddling along a private and unchallenging river... Could rivalry be a productive system?
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Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
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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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Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.
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Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
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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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Be artistic, choose taste, set an example.
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Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
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Refreshing failures roll off the travel easel like ants from a picnic blanket.
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Why can't we all just acknowledge that 'nature' - that is, 'sex' or 'erotic' images, which are really just 'attracters' are everywhere. Of course a flower looks like what it looks like - that's what it is - to a bee.
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