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Will You Regret Not Becoming an Artist?

Post author:Gary Bolyer
Post published:May 19, 2014
Post category:Book Reviews How to be A More Creative, Balanced Artist Lessons I Learned in the Dark
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Will you live to regret it if you don't follow your dream of being an artist? At the end of your life, will you deeply regret taking the sure and…

Reject the Rejection for Art Career Success

Post author:Gary Bolyer
Post published:February 5, 2014
Post category:Art Business Success How to be A More Creative, Balanced Artist How to Get Art Gallery Representation How to Sell Art Online Lessons I Learned in the Dark
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In 1902, an aspiring young writer received a rejection letter from the poetry editor of The Atlantic Monthly. Enclosed with a sheaf of poems the twenty-eight-year-old poet had sent was…

The Secret of All Genuinely Successful People

Post author:Gary Bolyer
Post published:January 7, 2014
Post category:Art Business Success How to be A More Creative, Balanced Artist Lessons I Learned in the Dark
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Did you ever go on a treasure hunt when you were a child, or read Poe's "The Gold Bug"? Then you know the first thing you have to do before…

Why I’ve Decided to Drill a Hole in My Head

Post author:Gary Bolyer
Post published:March 4, 2013
Post category:Lessons I Learned in the Dark
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Have you ever wanted to drill a hole in your head? Have you ever thought about how much fun or what an adventure that might be? Did you know that…

Are You Foolishly Consistent?

Post author:Gary Bolyer
Post published:November 21, 2012
Post category:Art Business Success Lessons I Learned in the Dark
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"A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson Are you foolishly consistent? This quote comes from Emerson's essay "Self Reliance." And it reveals the essence…

Artists – Let Your Life Speak

Post author:Gary Bolyer
Post published:October 19, 2012
Post category:Lessons I Learned in the Dark
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"Preach the gospel at all times. If necessary, use words." - Francis of Assisi There is an old story about Quaker relief workers in Europe after World War II. After…

Why Artists Are the Luckiest People I Know

Post author:Gary Bolyer
Post published:July 31, 2012
Post category:Lessons I Learned in the Dark
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"Picasso was drawing like an angel in the crib." - Louise Nevelson, Sculptor Artists are the luckiest people I know. That may sound a little funny to you, but it's…

Going Through: Surviving the Swamplands of the Artistic Journey

Post author:Gary Bolyer
Post published:July 23, 2012
Post category:Lessons I Learned in the Dark
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"Truth is always on the side of the more difficult." - Friedrich Nietzche Not too far from the small town where I grew up in northwest Louisiana, there is a…

The Song Unsung

Post author:Gary Bolyer
Post published:May 25, 2012
Post category:How to be A More Creative, Balanced Artist Lessons I Learned in the Dark
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"I have spent my days stringing and unstringing my instrument while the song I came to sing remains unsung." - Rabindranath Tagore Several years ago the American Medical Association found…

Hymn to the Barely Brave

Post author:Gary Bolyer
Post published:May 23, 2012
Post category:How to be A More Creative, Balanced Artist Lessons I Learned in the Dark
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This blog is for the barely brave and beginning lovers like me, who refuse to abandon their dream, now more humble and real, and struggle to meet life and even…