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Eleanor Blair - From the Advice category:
The best advice for artists is to separate pride from price. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Artists category:
We artists are the first to see the light at the end of the chaotic tunnels we all live in, and we dare to move toward it. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Blocks category:
The best cure for a dry period to simply to keep at it. Good things are happening, soon to be revealed. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Collectors category:
Serious collectors that I know are focused on the art. They are not looking for a decorative item, or a good investment. There is some aspect of the work itself that has hooked them. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Creativity category:
Creativity is not a motive, it's simply an attitude of open-mindedness. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Danger category:
The danger of early success is that young artists are seduced into simply copying themselves for the rest of their lives. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Dealers category:
To the big-city high-powered galleries demanding exclusivity, my argument is: if you want to be the only agent who sells my work, you must guarantee me a minimum annual income. So far, no one has been willing to do that. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Ego category:
The artist's ego lives in that moment between having an idea, and getting to work. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Emotion category:
The state of our heart at the moment of applying paint to canvas gets into the mix somehow. What our audience actually 'gets' when they regard our work is simply how we felt while we were doing it. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Failure category:
Without fail, three or four hideous paintings down the road, an absolutely wonderful painting appears. A painting that is a better painting than I know how to do. A painting that feels effortless. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Focus category:
What am I paying attention to? ...my attention is focused on the space between what I see, and what the paint is doing on the end of my brush. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Freedom category:
Free time is a necessity if you are to exist as an artist. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Frustration category:
It is the nature of existence to be frustrated. And making a painting is certainly a very effective way to scratch that particular itch. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Fun category:
It's fun to do a demonstration painting without having to talk, or explain. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Generosity category:
People seem to think that the art we donate just grows on trees. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Goodness category:
A fascinating theory is that each positive model has a negative, or shadow manifestation... We all want to be 'good' archetypes, but there's a lot to be learned from our inner 'bad boy' or 'bad girl' if we can just find the courage to make his or her acquaintance. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Ideas category:
Ideas seem to be born within structure... All limitations in art are arbitrary and imagined, but creativity seems to flourish within a random boundary or two... (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Influence category:
I have been influenced by paintings I have seen in books, and in museums, not because they defined success but because they suggested possibilities. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Intimacy category:
I am always surprised by how much people seem to like the most personal of my paintings – the ones I think couldn't possibly be of any interest to anyone but me. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Language category:
Art is a language that many people can understand but few can speak. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Life category:
What began as imaginative escapism has led me full circle back to life. Maybe artists do pay attention to the important things. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Mysteries category:
There is a mysterious relationship between painting and making music. The two activities seem to feed one another. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Plein-Air category:
Every time we go out to paint, we are full of reasons why painting right this very minute isn't such a good idea – the ferry is about to leave, it may rain at any moment, there's no comfortable place to sit... our brains come up with a hundred reasons not to pick up the brush. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Possessions category:
Today I've been practising gratitude for self-possession. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Practice category:
Practice makes perfect, and a painting a day keeps the doctor away. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Pricing category:
Whatever system of pricing you use, you should always be consistent. Why would you want to undersell your gallery? Why would a gallery want to represent you if you are in competition with them for sales? (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Problems category:
Artwork is really just 'sublimated problem-solving.' (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Questions category:
How could you paint, and not want to make music? (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Rewards category:
The last painting of the day is always a gift, a reward from the universe for being willing to keep painting when reasonable people have already packed up and gone home. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Studio category:
People who aren't artists seem to not understand exactly what a studio is. It's not a store. It's not a factory. It's not a theme park. It's my personal space and their company is not so invasive. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Success category:
Success is not a motive, it's a matter of opinion. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Time category:
Lord save us from the time management police. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Time category:
One of the essential characteristics we must have to be happy and productive artists is the skill to navigate our way through random time; so that even without a clock for a compass, and without a clear destination, we still know what direction to go. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Words category:
Wouldn't it be nice if every painting I'd ever done had a little note on the back? Maybe not. A painting is made from paint, not words, after all. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Work category:
One of the many blessings of being an artist is that you don't have to wait for someone to hire you before you can work. That's wealth beyond measure. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Workshops category:
Consider your own process and development as a painter, and create the content of your workshop from your own personal experience. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Worry category:
Worrying about what someone else 'should' be doing is a great way to avoid what we need to do. (Eleanor Blair)
Eleanor Blair - From the Writing category:
Morning writing centres me, clears the pond scum off the surface of my mind, plants my feet firmly on the ground and gets me out of my own way. (Eleanor Blair)
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