"When you buy from an independent artist you are buying more than just a painting or a novel or a song. You are buying hundreds of hours of experimentation and thousands of failures. You are buying days, weeks, months, years of frustration, and moments of pure joy. You are buying nights of worry about paying the rent, having enough money to eat, having enough money to feed the children, the birds, the dog. You aren't just buying a thing, you are buying a piece of heart, part of a soul, a private moment in someone's life. Most importantly, you are buying that artist more time to do something they are truly passionate about; something that makes all of the above worth the fear and the doubt; something that puts the life into the living."
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"Earth" without "Art" is just "Eh."

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Being an artist means putting up with some people who seem to want to hold us back. They tell us we are being "unrealistic" in our thoughts and goals. But that's just what artists are, and should be - UNREALISTIC! We have ideas that have never been thought of before. We make things that have never existed before. Telling an artist that he or she is being unrealistic is a huge compliment! I love being unrealistic!

This thought was inspired by my very unrealistic son, Case. :-)

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"Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do." - Edgar Degas


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"I create to keep from going sane."  Brian Phillips