If you are political or have a succinct message to convey, you can use your art to make statements that are more easily stimulated in a visual setting than by mere words. If you are a writer, your language is your art, and the progression of letters and words that you use in...
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Another eccentricity that those in the ‘normal’ world often misunderstand is our need for Solitude. This will be touched upon more deeply in a later blog, but for now, each of us must realize that for what we do, we need lots of quiet time. Solitude requires that you ignore the details of life...
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Beyond your loved ones, realize that you must maintain professional relationships as well. Maintaining and managing your own client base requires that you be social, meet and greet, and hand out those dreaded business cards. Use a web site to market your work. Contact your clients and send jpegs of your work. In other...
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“There is as much dignity in plowing a field as in writing a poem.”
Booker T. Washington
The art market is much different today than in years...
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In our art world there are no industry-figures only anecdotes. Focusing more intently on the art created from the canvas, six figures are paid by collectors for the opportunity to own work that intellectual elitists deem “important” not withstanding the fact that the masses haven’t a clue as to what is and what is...
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In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm. In the real world all rests on perseverance.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Considering the philosophy of Art, what is it that truly makes an Artist? To what principles of metaphysics must the Artist adhere in order...
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The pursuit of the Artistic Life is truly a noble aspiration, and though it may at this stage seem like a gamble, if it is viewed and handled with a commitment to personal excellence and thinking within lines as much as without, you can find yourself with a winning hand. Fame may never come. ...
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Artists are born, again and again and again. Artists are created, again and again and again. Every time a brush strokes paint onto a canvas, an artist is born. Every time words are placed to elicit meaning, an artist is born. Every time a performance is acted out, an artist is born. But it...
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I am only one,
But still I am one.
I cannot do everything,
But still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything
I will not refuse to do
The something that I can do.
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At the end of the day, when all is said and done, the Artist must have Solitude. There is no suit to bring our C.A.R.D.S to plurality, and so the Artist finds himself alone, standing as the Joker and the Fool. There is no corresponding element, for the Artist...
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