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Art Class: Part 2 - The Inner Conditions

Insights for establishing the Inner Condition

Nature and art have something in common: in both, the ‘union of opposites’ allows things to come into existence (to go from seed - or the seed of an idea - to shape and form.)

 

 1.  Awareness

Be aware of the simple, but often overlooked, fact that the artist needs to experience opposite states of being to create: the receptive state, and the work or active state.  This awareness requires...

 

2. Allowance (of that fact), and ...

 

 

3. Alternating 

Proceeding in rhythm - alternating the process between 'giving out' and 'taking in' - allows you to find a new energy, a fresh productivity.

Why?

Because you are following the law of your nature.

Rather than forcing the issue, when  artists hit creative roadblocks and difficulties, and feel like they are struggling, they recognize that this is a sign: to step back

to alternate;

 to move into the receptive state.

 

The true artist takes care of themselves.

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