You are responsible for radicalizing your strengths.
Going beyond one's backyard grants one perspective.
As a community of artists, we might just keep safe each other's love affair.
In the art game we do our own cooking.
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.
Artists live in an imperfect world where affairs of the heart must sometimes be compromised with business.
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.
Could rivalry be a productive system?
Art is a perfectly complete cause.
As artists, we bear the charge of signalling, guiding, communicating and inspiriting change.
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.
The Painter's Keys is a timeless, universal guide to lifemanship masquerading as a painting blog.
Ideas bubble differently when we're forced to inquire about the obvious.
Things we do regularly become buried with habits, and we lose the ability to extract their powers to inspire.
Artists and their subjects are the star-crossed lovers of the world. They recognize each other on impact.
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.
Art begins when an observer's sensibilities engage with the understatements of a calculating craftsman.
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.
Value choices are intuitive... It's fun to see how much you can get without leaning on contrast.
Once you sophisticate the in-betweens, your blacks and whites can take their solos and shine.
Rules are, like an ashtray-in-progress, meant to be thrown, poked and reshaped to suit yourself.
Read in order to write, but paint in order to paint.
Making strides in areas unencumbered by hard-won expectation feels effervescent. By switching into child-mode, shuffling the cortex, we remember our innocence, when we knew less. These are the essentials of continued aesthetic discovery.
You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.
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.
