Jane of all trades?
Trying to be everything to everyone can be exhausting. I know! I’ve tried! Looking back on the evolution of my dance, I can see a sort of wave-like motion. That is, like a wave pushing forward which swells and swells … Read More
On being an artist: Your Artist Workout
From http://clicks.robertgenn.com/personal-trainer.php Advice to artists from a personal trainer, taking skills from workout training and applying them to being an artist: Find a sanctuary where you can comfortably work. Dedicate at least two hours a day to your art. Have … Read More
What Is Art? What is an Artist?
From http://www.artnewsblog.com/2007/06/what-is-art-what-is-artist.htm “I have been thinking about the word “artist” and what it means to be one. Obviously it’s a person that creates art, so why do we have to still get into debates over whether a person is an … Read More
For spouses/partners of artists!
Excerpted from the excellent http://www.artadvice.com/advice/article14.php This is just one section of three wonderful brief paragraphs about what it means to live with, and try to understand, about an artist. Does this sound like you? “Living with an artist isn’t easy, … Read More
On being an artist: Art is a lifestyle not just an activity.
From http://www.luminous-landscape.com/columns/aesthetics10.shtml “Art is a lifestyle not just an activity. One’s art and one’s life are eventually inseparable. One cannot be an artist without living a lifestyle which is conducive to being an artist: Being an artist means having a … Read More
On being an artist: is it this simple?
From http://www.geocities.com/debverhoeven/beinganartist/artist.htm Contrary to a previous post and link about what it takes to be an artist, this web page asserts that if you think you are an artist, you are. It takes nothing more than messing about with whatever … Read More
Making art of our very world…
“It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through … Read More
Art Is A Verb, Not A Noun
http://www.artadvice.com/advice/article20.php “Most people don’t realize how much courage it takes for an artist to show their work to people. Courage, as defined by Mark Twain, is not the lack of fear, but rather being able to move forward in spite … Read More