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...in celebration of art and the art process |
"The best you can do is make art
you care about--and lots
of it!"
--Bayles and Orland
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"Be always looking for the thing
you like and not afraid of overstating it."
--Robert Henri
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"The object is not to make art,
but to be in the wonderful state which makes art
inevitable."
--Robert Henri
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"There's no such thing as good
art or bad art. There's only art--and damn little of
it!"
--James Thurber
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"Judging a Manet from the
point of view of Bouguereau the Manet has not been finished.
Judging a Bouguereau from the point of view of Manet the
Bouguereau has not been begun."
--Robert Henri
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"While you may feel you're just
pretending that you're an artist, there's no way to pretend
you're making art."
--Bayles and Orland
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"Men of the world think
that pictures are made simply by moving the brush; they do
not understand that painting is no easy matter."
--from Osvald Siren
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"How
long does it take to do a single painting? Ten minutes,
perhaps, and eighty years."
--Zen master Hakuin
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"As blocked creatives, we
focus not on our responsibilities to ourselves, but on our
responsibilities to others. We tend to think such
behavior makes us good people. It doesn't. It
makes us frustrated people."
--Julia Cameron
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"You will discover the joy
of practicing your creativity. The process, not the
product, will become your focus."
--Julia Cameron
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"If you look into the past of a
successful painter, you will find square miles of canvas."
--Charles Hawthorne
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"It will not do to have your
fine thought yesterday, and paint your picture today."
--Robert Henri
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"The difference between a
student and a professional is that a professional knows how
to give themselves their own assignments."
--From an art instructor of Don
Haggerty's long ago
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"I want you to see things from
the realization that your drawing does not need to be a
house. The view that you must take is that this is a
piece of God's outdoors, that this is shadow and this is
light. You ought to tremble before it, and not sit
down like a magician and try to make windows."
--Charles Hawthorne
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"What we need is more sense
of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a
picture."
--Robert Henri
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"At some level, all art is
autobiographical."
--Bayles and Orland
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"Creativity lives in
paradox: serious art is born from serious play."
--Julia Cameron
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"Don't look up at nature and
consider an inch at a time. See what one big spot is
in relation to the other big spots."
--Charles Hawthorne
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"Your style is the way you talk
in paint."
--Robert Henri
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"If one discusses painting
with a view to its faculty to render distance, one must
admit that it does not equal real landscape, but if one
considers the wonders of brushwork, it becomes evident that
real landscapes do not equal painting."
--from Osvald Siren
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"The hardest thing about art
making is living your life in such a way that your work gets
done, over and over."
--Bayles and Orland
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"Until the painting is
done, it's all underpainting."
--Don Haggerty
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"Remember it is far harder
and more painful to be a blocked artist than it is to do the
work."
--Julia Cameron
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"Simply put, artists learn to
proceed, or they don't."
--Bayles and Orland
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"The lawyer and the doctor
practice their callings. The plumber and the carpenter
know what they will be called upon to do. They do not
have to spin the work out of themselves, discover its laws,
and then present themselves turned inside out to the public
gaze"
--Bayles and Orland
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"A great painter will know
a great deal about how he did it, but still he will say,
'How did I do it?'."
--Robert Henri
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"We need lots more
clothes!"
--Kathy Deraitus, model
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"When it happens once, witness
inspiration. When it happens twice, call it
experimentation. But three times or more...I'm afraid
it's become a formula."
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Bibliography
of Great Art Teachings...
The Art Spirit, by
Robert Henri, Westview Press, 1951
Art and Fear, by
David Bayles and Ted Orland, Capra Press, 1993
The Artist's Way,
by Julia Cameron, Putnam Books, 1992
Hawthorne on Painting,
Collected by Mrs. Charles W. Hawthorne, Dover Publications, 1960
The Chinese on the Art of
Painting, by Osvald Siren, Schocken Books, Inc., 1963
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