Wednesday, August 4, 2010

Rules for Artists

A version of these was recently posted on CyberScribes.
This is the copy that I got from John Prestianni back in the 80’s.


RULES

1. Find a place you trust and then try trusting it for awhile.

2. General duties of a student: pull everything out of your teacher, pull everything out of your fellow students.

3. General duties of a teacher: pull everything out of your students.

4. Consider everything an experiment.

5. Be self-disciplined. This means finding someone wise or smart and choosing to follow them.

6. Nothing is a mistake. There's no win and no fail. There's only make.

7. The only rule is work. If you work, it will lead to something. It's the people who do all of the work all the time who eventually catch onto things.

8. Don't try to create and analyze at the same time. They're different processes.

9. Be happy whenever you can manage it. Enjoy yourself. It's lighter than you think.

10. "We're breaking all of the rules. Even our own rules. And how do we do that? By leaving plenty of room for X quantities."
-- John Cage

Helpful Hints: Always be around. Come or go to everything. Always go to classes. Read anything you can get your hands on. Look at movies carefully, often. Save everything -- it might come in handy later.

There should be new rules next week.

-- Immaculate Heart College Art Dept. Rules

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