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Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery, rather than obvious description.

Abstract understanding doesn't mean arbitrary sloshing and messing. Abstract art is controlled visual magic based on laws and methodology. Abstraction generally involves implication, suggestion and mystery rather that obvious description. Like a good poem, a good abstraction attacks your feelings before your understanding. Abstraction within realism adds zest and excitement to otherwise dull subject matter. Abstract understanding takes time and patience.

Accepting the gift may take the accumulated wisdom of some trodden miles, but it also opens the welcome windows of joy.

According to Mednick, after sleep, people are 33 percent more likely to be creative.

A curiosity prompt heightens the senses and hones compositional ability.

A drawing a day keeps the cobwebs away.

A high price may be part of the mystique in selling difficult art.

A list of your own making is the most powerful list of all... The good stuff can be 'love at first sight' - in need of study, courting and claiming. And like a love note, it's nice to have things in writing.

A method of achieving wild enthusiasm is to act wildly enthusiastic. Often, a growing and beautiful love-affair develops quite automatically.

An abstract title suggests another value to the subject, perhaps an artistic quality that sets the viewers' sensitivities into action.

An opening and a receptiveness to design and pattern for its own sake seems to free the painting hand.

A painting has an intrinsic value which has nothing to do with critical assessments.

Art, because it's so easy to do, and yet so difficult to do well, encourages humility in the human soul.

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.

Art is a form of love. Art is the ultimate gift. Art heals life.

Art is a Great Goddess of infinite intrigue and illusion, and even a lifetime of worship may not find her fickle soul.

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.

Art is a path on which we honour our world.

Artist, gain knowledge, but know that the greatest guru of all is the guru within.

Artists are supposed to be the ones with imagination. A good part of our job description is to get regular people to use theirs.

Artists cannot be micro-managed. We can take heart that everything we do is different from the last thing we did - or indeed everything that's ever been done. That knowledge is the key to sound mentoring.

Artists... do not need the applause or condemnation of the critics, the ideas of other artists, or the demands of the collectors.

Artists should be aware that petty stroking could be the source of arrested productivity. An artist's job includes the avoidance of premature closure by the begged or gratuitous approval of others.

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

Artspeak is an arcane writing style that can result in a vocabulary of obscurities... Today, some of the more spectacular examples are in artist's statements.

Art thrives on a difference of opinion. My treasure is your junk, sort of thing. Life would be dull if we all agreed.

As every artist who has used the method knows - photography's a loyal slave and a tyrannical master.

A simple equation for the production of successful art work is lots of reference material plus lots of art supplies equals lots of painting happiness.

As self-governing entities, artists have a profound interest in change. Embracing change, we embrace growth and we embrace our future.

As we grow older, we realize just how limiting were our earlier conceptions. Art is something else. Art is fluid, transmutable, open-ended, never complete, and never perfect. Art is an event.

As well as many subspecies, the main blocks are fear of failure after previous success, fear of success due to a sense of unworthiness, lack of potential venue, jaded attitude, crisis of confidence, evidence of persistent poor quality, lackadaisical motivation, and common everyday shortage of ideas.

A young person wanting to become an artist might simply go purposefully and dedicatedly to his or her room with a few books and a thousand blank canvases for four years.

By stealthily teaching dependence, photography can turn out to be dangerous.

By thinking you are cleverer and more talented than your buddies, many a career has been blotted.

Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative patterns. While "ready-mades" do show up from time to time, they are rare. Art need not be what is seen-but what is to be seen. "Nature," said James McNeill Whistler, "is usually wrong.

Carl Orff's Carmina Burana has the ability to take you from placidity to power in one sonic breath. It is music of dignity and strength, with primitive, energetic passages, evoking absolute beauty from the simplest of phrases. It brings up something that has everything to do with significance - squeezing joy and motif that you just can't drop - it stays with you.

Certain music is terrifically inspirational and it is possible, months or even years afterwards, to look at a painting and remember the music that was playing during its execution.

Contrary to popular belief, all evolving artists are in a full time battle with mediocrity.

Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

Critics are the products of their own times and biases and what they have to say about works of art is as transient and insubstantial as fashion.

Curiosity allows your unique "owned processes" to draw you toward creative conclusions.

Dogs are angels sent from heaven in order to help us to be better people.

Do not be frivolous with the gift of a day. Right now it's all you have. Yesterday is history.

Don't assume there is only one way. Don't assume that mistakes are a bad thing. Don't think for one minute that everyone agrees with what 'good' is.

Do something others will have the desire to plagiarize but will find difficult to do.

Drawing is still the bottom line.

Evolved creators are just as curious about their failures as they are of their successes.

Exploit a subject or a theme to its greatest potential by bringing all possible reference to bear - then put aside the reference and create again using the potential of your unfettered imagination.

Fact is, perfection is boring.

Factual titling satisfies and is pure by its lack of bamboozlement.