“The one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live only as you can.” (unknown) I had submitted 3 stories to a writing competition at the end of…
I was reading in ‘The Artist’s Way’ the section on Recovering a Sense of Possibility. Oddly enough, the author Julia Cameron talks about Solitude in this chapter – which was my blog topic last week. She also relays the importance of solitude for an artist, saying ‘without this period of…
“Without great solitude no serious work is possible.” – Picasso. I really connect with this quote because of how I work. I very much like my quiet time. I have stressed in the past and feel guilty if I take some quiet thinking time, as I felt like it meant…
In college while studying Visual Arts, we had critiquing days that the class would sit in a room for up to 8 hours. You could equate the complaining (bragging) about the ‘hard work’ of critiquing art for 8 hours to an academic student complaining (bragging) about staying up all night…
Having various experience is life enriching. From ‘The Artist’s Way’: “All the arts we practice are apprenticeship. The big art is our life.” This doesn’t necessarily have to be an ‘art’ but anything you are passionate, excited or curious about. They can all be considered apprenticeship. They don’t have to…
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