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“Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.”
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“There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, mounted to best advantage.”
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“The job of art is to turn time into things.”
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“The brilliance of art as a collectible is that it has a way of reaching out on an emotional level. It touches on mystery, even spirituality.”
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“The only bad studio is the unused one.”
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“Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.”
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“Keep busy while you are waiting for something to happen.”
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“Know that to begin is often better than to think.”
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“Art is a path on which we honour our world. Art may not be the only path, but it is a good path, even though at times a difficult one. As bearers of this honour, we artists do not need to simply render our world as we see it but as we might ourselves redesign it. As artists, one of our privileges is to invent.”
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“We have been mysteriously gifted this amazing life. Let us not complain.”
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“Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.”
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“Never forget that the nurturing and preservation of your own muse is job one. Lose it and you may be losing a great deal.”
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“Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.”
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“While this may seem peculiar, the combo of work and distraction leads to levels of innovation not often generated by structured, focused thinking alone.”
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“A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability...”
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“Passion is the force that springs an artist from the needling cushion of depression.”
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“Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.”
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“While knowledge of tools and the love of motif may be in your backpack, and all mountains may be measured by their previous heroes, art must exist for you in a place beyond the judgment of others.”
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“The artist needs to sit patiently at the feet of Nature in all Her moods and nuances and silently develop the skills to honour Her. There are no recipes for Autumn.”
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“When you sit down to paint or draw, you form yourself into a posture of praise”
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“Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.”
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“Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.”
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“Risk in art is experimentation. There is no sorrow in self-driven experimentation.”
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“The most expensive bottle of wine ever sold - a 1787 Chateau Lafite Bordeaux, supposedly once the property of Thomas Jefferson... It was sold at Christie's in London in 1985 for $156,000.00. Like a lot of high-priced art, the bottle is essentially undrinkable.”
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“It's my wish that I can help creative people think of new ways to be creative - to get more joy and understanding from their own unique processes.”
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“A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.”
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“No one is going to hand you an organizational chart. You have to hand it to yourself.”
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