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Wisdom about creators & audience.
What people have learned about creators & audience the hard way, and what the classics said about it first.
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- Speak from experience. Say what you lived and what you learned. Advice without a story is easy to ignore.
- Be kind to the person. Disagree with an idea as much as you like. Never with someone’s worth.
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From the library
Energy is eternal delight.
The painter should aim at universality.
There is no wealth but life.
Invention is one of the great marks of genius.
If music be the food of love, play on.
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
The busy bee has no time for sorrow.
The painter strives and competes with nature.
When we build, let us think that we build for ever.
The greatest natural genius cannot subsist on its own stock.
What is now proved was once only imagined.
The mind of the painter must resemble a mirror.
Nature contains the elements, in colour and form, of all pictures.
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
He is a poor disciple who does not excel his master.
Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
Painting is adorned with infinite possibilities which sculpture cannot command.
No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.
The painter who works from nature should have a window, which he can raise and lower.