30 Great Quotes On Stealing

Enjoy this collection of quotes on stealing. “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” – Pablo Picasso “Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.” – Igor Stravinsky “Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.” – Lionel Trilling “Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.” – T. S. Eliot “Good writers borrow...

The Problems With Calling Them B&W Photographs

You may not think there’s a problem. You may think you know the difference. It’s obvious right? But is it? Do you? After a lifetime spent in the arts, I find photographers’ ability to describe color woefully limited, and this is never truer than when...

How To Write About Your Images

Writing an artist’s statement is something I initially resisted. For years I’d heard all of the excuses from many great artists, “Pictures should be seen and not heard.””If I could say with words what I want to say with images, I’d have become a writer.””Those...

Austin Kleon's Sheds Light On The Creative Process

Austin Kleon offers a collection of pearls of wisdom drawn from his books Steal Like An Artist and Show Your Work. View more Austin Kleon videos here. Learn more about Austin Kleon here. View more Creativity Videos here. Learn more in my Creativity workshops.

The Difference Between Painters’ and Photographers’ Color Wheels

The photographers’ color wheel rendered by Apple. The painters’ color wheel painted by Johannes Itten.   In color theory, one of the primary uses of color wheels is to plot complementary colors. Painters and photographers use this information to create neutral colors. Painters mix complementary...

New Interview – Find Your Way

Shortly after the opening of my new exhibition Land Within Land, Scott David Gordon recently interviewed me for his podcast Austin Talks. He picked up on many of the ideas I shared during my gallery talks … and ran with them. As he said, “If you...

My New Exhibit Opens Saturday & Sunday

View new images here. You’re invited! to my Exhibit | Open Studio New Work 2018 August 4-5, 2018 10 AM – 5 PM Artist’s Talk 2 PM Watch it live on Facebook. 73 Cross Road, Cushing, ME  04563 Find directions here. – Save 25% On Prints For A Limited...

How To Be More Creative

Want to be more creative? Whether you can’t seem to get going, find yourself stuck in a rut, or you want to break through to your next level, you’ll find these articles both inspiring and useful. 7 Simple Ways to Be More Creative in 2018 Why...

How To Keep Going – Austin Kleon

Austin Kleon (Steal Like An Artist) shares a preview of his next book How To Keep Going addressing an important challenge that all creatives face – persistence. His list of 10 things to do include … Every day is Groundhog Day Build a bliss station Forget the noun,...

Photographer Dorothea Lange – A Visual Life

“Excerpts from the film, Dorothea Lange: A Visual Life. The film was produced and directed by Meg Partridge,(1994).This film is an engaging and penetrating look at a life devoted to photography, profiling the life and work of an artist who recorded some of the most...