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Helping artists catapult into further action, this guide is a treasury of insight and inspiration. Rather than focus on art techniques that build skills or overcome creative blocks through playful activities or writing, this guide walks the artist through exercises designed to develop the personal qualities critical to being an artist in the world, such as courage, the ability to look and see, and connection to the true creative self. This is a hands-on, experiential action book designed to get the reader creating art and exploring a variety of possibilities for being an artist. According to the teachings of this handbook, engagement with art is less about end results or products and more about the self-awareness and competence that frees the artist to seek out and create work that is vital.
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ICeci n’est pas une pipe The
Treachery of Images
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Thirty Ways to Paint
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“If you can see your path laid out in front of you step by step, you know it’s not your path. Your own path you make with every step you take. That’s why it’s your path.” —Joseph Campbell
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“Fallen Angel”
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This is ridiculous!
“Needing certainty shackles my potential for the unexpected. Feeling ‘I don’t know’ or ‘Let’s see what happens’, allows my expanded self to provide answers and solutions that may be completely serendipitous and outrageously synchronistic. When I step into the realm of ambiguity I’m really at my most powerful. ” —Anita Moorjani
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”Venice”
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“The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things,
—Aristotle
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“Woman in Chair”
“Your problem is you are too busy holding on to your unworthiness.” —Ram Dass
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