to be a better artist

visual artist (B.A. studio art) giving art history a second chance via independent study | she/her, infp, slytherin, 30-ish

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"Do I deserve this?" "Am I worthy of this?"

So irrelevant. Do you want it?

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drink your coffee, do your workouts, read your books, eat your cupcakes, ignore people, be at peace

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cosy autumn study season has begun folks

🍂🍁🔑⏳📓🖋✏

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National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

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So many idiots have masters degrees maybe I could be the next

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“The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again. We’re drawn in — or out — and the windows of our perception are cleansed.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin, Talking on the Water: Conversations about Nature and Creativity (Trinity University Press, October 11, 2016) (via Alive on All Channels)

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Design informs even the simplest structure, whether of brick and steel or prose.

-- E.B. White

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While good art - be it a painting or a poem,

a novel or a song - makes our ordinary

lives more livable, great art makes them

transcendent. It casts a spell of enchant-

ment on the moment and on the epochs,

transporting us both away from and deeper

into the common plane of living, unlatching

some new dimension of consciousness that

clarifies us to ourselves.

“Art is a miracle, superior to the laws.”

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― Min Jin Lee, Pachinko

[text ID: Fill your mind with knowledge—it’s the only kind of power no one can take away from you.]

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Thoughts?

No thanks, I’m trying to cut back

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all I want is to wake up gently and create all day with the windows open, sunlight peeking through, a light chill breeze surrounding me and everything is soft.

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shades of green in Van Gogh’s paintings

(via)

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Your best is what you can do without harming your mental and physical health, not what you can accomplish when you disregard it.

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Cherubs by Raphael (Italian, 1483–1520), oil on canvas, 1512 -1513

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—CJ Hauser

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my current inspiration: studio ghibli characters working hard at what they love