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Nina Allen Freeman - From the Acrylics category:
I miss that smell of an oil painter's studio... Acrylic companies should put an interesting aroma in their product. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Artists category:
Our creative lives involve continually balancing fear of the blank page and busyness of life with the joy of creating. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Blocks category:
I used to have problems with creative blocks until I remembered that my ability to do art began with a gift from God - that joy I had as a child doing art... (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Boredom category:
I am bored painting anything endlessly... I change media and techniques so often I have no consistency... As a result, I do experience failure a lot. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Collectors category:
If you paint all over the spectrum, different subjects and styles, collectors become confused. I think they want to know what to think of you; what you are about, more than technical ability. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Commitment category:
Regular habits will get you in the studio, but it is the courage of commitment to your art that will keep you coming back. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Complaining category:
My pet peeve is tiny little signatures hidden somewhere in the painting so that the viewer has to send out a search party for it. Is the painter ashamed of his or her work? (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Creativity category:
Creativity is a powerful gift and some people are excited by it and want to use it and others are afraid of it. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Criticism category:
Honest feedback from someone you trust is so important for the artist who truly wants to grow... It is a hard job to give someone a sensitive but honest critique. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Depression category:
Some people worry that if the addiction or depression goes away, the creativity goes away too. Not true. When your spirit is no longer weighed down with these distractions, you are finally able to find your authentic self. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Friendship category:
Art and friendship are absolutely connected... Friendship is, after all, sharing a deep part of your self with another person and receiving the same back. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Health category:
The intellectual stimulation of painting and art in general certainly does keep one young and more active. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Ideas category:
This gift we have is more than an ability to put things on paper or canvas, but an ability to think it up in the first place. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Journey category:
To create your own vision and nurture your growth as an artist while the world around you expects conformity is a difficult journey. Many take the easier route and give in to the expectations. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Limitations category:
Art has been limited often by the culture of the times. But what about limitations to freedom from within? Self-defeating thoughts, expectations of what other people want from you, these are cages as well. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Optimism category:
If there were more love and optimism in the world, maybe artists wouldn't be so rare. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Plein-Air category:
Working on location occasionally, I find I have to change my method in order to complete a painting before the bugs or the heat drive me away. This has forced me to go immediately to that which I most want to say in the painting. I have taken this lesson to the studio... (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Problems category:
It might help to have a name for the problem. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Profession category:
I don't know of any other profession where friends and family feel as free to tell you how to do your job as they do to an artist. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Quality category:
You can make a quality painting out of any subject by putting your own spin into it. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Repetition category:
As much as I remind my students to be random, be repetitious with variation and avoid lining up things like soldiers, I somehow find myself doing the same thing if I don't pay attention to what I am doing. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Selling category:
Most people could describe something they would like in their house, certain colors or a certain subject. But they usually buy a piece of art that speaks to them emotionally - a scene that reminds them of a special place, or a painting that just makes them happy. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Teaching category:
Teaching is almost as much fun as painting. I love watching my students grow in ability and create paintings they couldn't conceive of in the beginning. (Nina Allen Freeman)
Nina Allen Freeman - From the Workshops category:
We learn from hearing about it, seeing it done, then doing it ourselves. (Nina Allen Freeman)
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