February 2012
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Bigger Chances
“What is your idea of mastery? Having the experience to know what you want to do, the vision to see how to do it, the courage with what you’re given and the skill to execute that first impulse - all so you can take bigger chances” - Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit
January 2012
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Habit-forming
“The only criterion is this: Make it easy on yourself. Find a working environment where the prospect of wresting with your muse doesn’t shut you down. It should make you want to be there and once you find it, stick with it. To get the creative habit, you need a working environment that’s habit-forming.” - Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit
Get Over Yourself.
“Someone has done it before? Honey, it’s all been done before. Nothing’s really original. Not Homer or Shakespeare and certainly not you. Get over yourself.” -Twyla Tharp, The Creative Habit
Sacrifice
“To lead a creative life, you have to sacrifice. “Sacrifice” and “Having it all” do not go together.” - Twlya Tharp, The Creative Habit
“As things stand now, I am going to be a writer. I’m not sure that I’m going to...”
– • Hunter S. Thompson (via machoturbo
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slone:
Never paint timidly. Paint like you are going to die. Because you will.
So get on with it.
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Work Worth Doing
“The only work really worth doing - the only work you can do convincingly - is the work that focuses on the things you care about. To not focus on those issues is to deny the constants in your life.”
-from Art & Fear, David Bayles & Ted Orland
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Certainty & Uncertainty
“In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot - and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting...
Empty Promises (to myself)
ARG. You know it - it’s the middle of January, and I have not followed through on those resolutions. Hard to believe, I know. Here’s what I promised myself I’d do:
* Sketch once a day in my *NEW* Moleskine notebook
* Paint 4x a week at my art studio
* Yoga
* Vegetarian Diet
* Restart the Artist’s Way
* Get up by 6am daily
* Blog daily
And I have accomplished: wait...
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The Need
“The need to make art may not stem solely from the need to express who you are, but from a need to complete a relationship with something outside yourself.”
-from Art & Fear, David Bayles & Ted Orland
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SOPA EMERGENCY LIST. →
Just in case folks!
therotund:
meghanalefae:
aprilstar-dance:
SOPA Emergency IP list: So if these ass-fucks in DC decide to ruin the internet, here’s how to access your favorite sites in the event of a DNS takedown tumblr.com 174.121.194.34 wikipedia.org 208.80.152.201 # News bbc.co.uk 212.58.241.131 aljazeera.com 198.78.201.252 #...
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Operating Manual for Not Quitting
A. Make friends with others who make art, and share your in-progress work with each other frequently.
B. Learn to think of [A], rather than the Museum of Modern Art, as the destination of your work. (Look at it this way: If all goes well, MOMA will eventually come to you.)
-from Art & Fear, David Bayles & Ted Orland
Red Herring
“…You are also now worried about whether your work is “original enough.” I think this line of worry is a red herring - and yet I want to say that all artists have this worry sooner or later. We all want to make something “new” and “fresh” - as if the human condition doesn’t repeat itself. But let’s look at this originality question.
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Starving Artist's Sage Advice: How to Critique →
Very insightful look at how to critique artwork - this is exactly what I was taught in my Fine Arts classes.
amazinglyartisticadvice:
Critique is invaluable to any artist, but especially to those of us who still call ourselves students.
However, good critique is hard to come by.
First, let’s define what good critique isn’t.
Good critique is not
Telling someone that their piece is great,...
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