What’s the difference between genre and style? Style is the unstable essence an artist brings to a genre… Jerry Saltz, How to be an Artist […]
I want… to believe Steve Rogers is good and kind and will do his best to save everyone, even though he can’t save everybody.
This job… we try to save as many people as we can. Sometimes that doesn’t mean everybody. But if we can’t find a way to […]
Embrace your differences
Embrace your differences & the qualities about you that you think are weird. Eventually they’re going to be the only things separating you from everyone […]
I don’t have to live my life as other people expect me to.
One of the biggest moments in my life was when I realized that the cookie cutter life of go to school, get a job, get […]
HTBAA – Art Is Not About Understanding. Or Mastery
It’s About Doing and Experience All art comes from love – love of doing something. Jerry Saltz, How to be an Artist This is the […]
Creative Process update – 23 NOV 2021
Creative process?What creative process? I would have to be creating something in order to have a process.
HTBAA: Recognize the **Otherness** of Art
I never quite know what I’m going to write until I write it – and then I’m not sure where it came from Jerry Saltz, […]
I want to fill my well, as the saying goes.
Four years after I wrote this sentence, I have zero recollection of where that saying came from. But it is a saying I read or […]
I’m going to make things and learn so much.
In learning How To Be An Artist, I feel like this statement is truer than it was even a month ago. Or a week ago. […]
I believe… the death penalty is wrong in all circumstances
The death penalty is a symptom of a culture of violence, not a solution to it. Amnesty International No matter the crime or what method […]