Diego Rivera's Detroit Industry, Detroit Institute of Arts, 1933
Painting, sculpture or performance art are no better than bookbinding, stucco ornament, hand hammering, dry set masonry, or violin making.-- Anonymous exploited craftsperson
The do's and don'ts
Stop cannibalizing art. Be original. To be original, search deep into your sources. Go back to your early drawings. Bring back the buried doodling.
Don't try to be popular.
You can't please everyone. Craft is the slow food of art.
Bring craft back into your art. Don't explain your design. Good design doesn't need explaining.
Don't be sloppy. Whatever art you do, learn it thoroughly.
Don't be a Mammon-sucker! If you hire someone to do artwork for you, credit them for the work.
Don't do art by just looking at art magazines.
Imitation is a form of limitation.Seek effect and affect.
Appropriation is cheap.Avoid Photoshop.
Bring back your drawing skills!What's your truest mark? YOU.
Bring more free-hand design! Trace your own experience of a process resembling its past development!
Go back to calligraphy! Free your hand and mind from the tedium of the mouse.
Don't cheat. Achieving style is a slow process.
Don't delegate any art/skill that you can master yourself.
Art doesn't comment.
Stop making art to make comments about comments.
Art-making is community.
Build community!The hell with the past.
Build futurity!Stop mimicking Postmodern mimicking.
Good art is not political. It is political
because it's good.Don't cheat. Learn your craft from scratch.
No shortcuts!
_______________________* Every line expressed here applies to this writer (he is YOU).