How to be an artist

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Earth Hands Fire video

This is a video by Sasha Mandel from about 2005. My earth, hands and fire.

Words of note for the wondering artist

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

Andre Gide

…artists “essential effort is to catapult themselves wholly, without holding back one bit, into a course of action without having any idea where they will end up.” 

“The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one’s own most intimate sensitivity.”

Anne Truitt