| How do you find the goddess of art, the scorpion | | | | YOURSELF within that world you long for. Read all |
| drawing that defies the critics, ward of the grim reaper | | | | you can of the words of great artists who came |
| that tells you that you are not good enough and you | | | | before you or ones you admire. |
| will never be a good artist? How do you paint | | | | Wassily Kandinsky had some enlightening things to |
| something great, so that when people walk into the | | | | say: |
| room and see it, they are not sure if they 'get it' , but | | | | "Every artist, as creator, must learn to express what is |
| they cannot stop looking at it. How do you bring your | | | | personally characteristic." |
| soul to the canvas, clay, metal sculpture, etched glass, | | | | "Every artist, as a child of his era, must express what |
| even a scrapbook? How do you define yourself as a | | | | is characteristic of this age." |
| good abstract painter, or within the realm of realism, | | | | "Every artist, as servant of the art, must express that |
| impressionism,modern art, portrait or figurative art? | | | | which is characteristic of art generally. |
| How do you make great art? | | | | -- Wassily Kandinsky in his "About the Spiritual in Art |
| One thing to help you reach the level you desire is to | | | | and Especially in Painting". |
| engross yourself in it. When you breathe, know that it | | | | Breathe these words in, define yourself, seek out what |
| is not possible to think of anything else, but your goal in | | | | you know is there for you, grab on to those grim |
| achieving great art and bathing in the passion you | | | | reaper drawings, pictures of cats kittens, whimsical |
| know is in your being. Another is to DEFINE | | | | angels, whatever it is you love and then create! |