- The art is the experience. We learn to make art through our experience of art making, so art can be used to learn about our personal experience.
- Make art not Art. We cannot all be artists but we can all make art. Make some art to neither sell nor show. Treat art making as research and investigation of yourself.
- Intend to attend. Pay attention to what you make and what happens when you make it. This makes making art like meditation. Inhabit and enjoy the process.
- Make art as adventure. It is a journey of uncertain outcome. Enjoy the journey. Your destination will make itself known, and it will pass.
- Make art as performance. It is what happens between you doing and you seeing what you are doing. Your thoughts and deeds are the material of your own acting.
- Just keep going. Do little bits regularly. Take a break. Benefits appear and grow over time. Just keep going.
- Attend to other peoples art. Find stuff you like and want to copy. Steal it and make it your own. All art starts with theft. Be a thief.
- Try lots of ways of making art. Find stuff you like and explore your way of making it. If you don’t like it, don’t make it. Be ruthless.
- Art is anything you make as art. You can paint, sing, dance, walk, sculpt, write, sew, draw and even sail or sleep as art. Seriously it’s all been done. The world is your oyster.
- Show and share carefully. If you do show what you made, show it to your people, the ones you trust. It is still art even if it is not in a gallery or for sale. People, including you, don’t need to like it. Your art can speak for itself. This is it’s power. Pay attention.
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