They Did It This Way
Did you know?
Ludwig Van Beethoven religiously took walks in nature to find new musical ideas.
Georgia O’Keefe cultivated her garden for improved health. Upon hearing that John Marin had completed three canvases in one day the first thing she asked him was what he ate that day.
Agnes Martin’s rigorous meditation practice helped her manage her schizophrenia and find inspiration for her paintings
Ernest Hemingway stopped writing before he didn’t know what to say next so that he knew where to pick up in the morning.
Thomas Edison slept upright with a metal ball in his hand to wake him up so that he could record the ideas he found during light sleep before he lost them in deep sleep.
You Do It Your Way
No two artists do it quite the same way. Your art is your own. So are the daily rituals that propel your life. Like you, they change over time. The time you spend reviewing your habits, casting aside old unproductive ones and cultivating new productive ones will ensure greater fulfillment and success and quite possibly new breakthroughs.
Habits … they’re the keys to achieving your life goals. Habits are powerful because small things build up to something much bigger over time. Are your habits serving you? If you haven’t reconsidered your habits recently, it’s time. I know it is for me. We don’t have to do this all at once. We just have to get started. And make it a habit to consider our habits.
In this set of resources, you’ll find all kinds of great food for thought including what worked for famous artists like Leonardo, Beethoven, Hemingway, O”Keeffe and many many more.
A Toolkit To Help You Improve Your Habits
Don’t think of these resources as a to-do list. You can’t do it all! What’s most important is making time and space for the things in your life that are the most important to you.
Think these resources as toolkits to help you craft the life you want to live!
Schedule
How To Schedule Your Day For Peak Creative Performance
Exercise
Why Exercise Makes You More Creative
Can A Simple Walk Improve Your Creative Thinking?
Beethoven’s Daily Habit For Inspiring Creative Breakthroughs
Diet
Need A Creative Boost? Take A Look At Your Diet
From Picasso’s Rice Pudding to O’Keeffe’s Green Juice, the Favorite Snacks of Famous Artists
Sleep
Taking a Nap Could Make You More Creative
Scientists Agree – Coffee Naps Are Better Than Coffee Or Naps Alone
Can Sleep Make You More Creative ?
How Famous Artists Dealt With Insomnia
Stress
Artists Share Their Rituals For Dealing With Stress
Meditation
Why Meditating Might Make You A Better Artist
How Disconnection Boosts Your Creativity
Want to Be More Creative At Work? Stop Working !
Artists
The Daily Routines Of 12 Famous Writers
The Daily Routines Of Great Writers
The Morning Routines of Famous Artists, From Andy Warhol To Louise Bourgeois
The Daily Routines Of 10 Women Artists, From Joan Mitchell To Diane Arbus
7 Famous Artists Who Made Great Work Late At Night
Quotes
That’s a lot! Don’t eat it all at once! Savor it over time!
Start here.
Can Sleep Make You More Creative ?
Enjoy this collection of quotes on habits.
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“We become what we repeatedly do.” ― Sean Covey
“Your beliefs become your thoughts,
Your thoughts become your words,
Your words become your actions,
Your actions become your habits,
Your habits become your values,
Your values become your destiny.”
― Gandhi
“Sow a thought, and you reap an act;
Sow an act, and you reap a habit;
Sow a habit, and you reap a character;
Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
― Samuel Smiles
“Habit is stronger than reason.” – George Santayana
“The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.” ― Henry Hazlitt
“Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature.” – Blaise Pascal
“We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead.” – Albert Camus
“Get the habit of analysis – analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
“The real key is to live in an environment where the mind feels free to choose the right thing instead of being compelled by habit and inertia to choose the wrong thing.” – Deepak Chopra
“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.” ― Warren Buffett
“We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we’ll also have a lot more joy in living.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“Your little choices become habits that affect the bigger decisions you make in life.” ― Elizabeth George
“Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken.” ― Samuel Johnson
“Habit is a cable; we weave a thread of it each day, and at last we cannot break it.” – Horace Mann
“Good habits are worth being fanatical about.” ― John Irving
“Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).” – Stephen R. Covey
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good.” – Malcolm Gladwell
“Habits change into character.” – Ovid
“In essence, if we want to direct our lives, we must take control of our consistent actions.It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives, but what we do consistently.” – Tony Robbins
“Success is the sum of small efforts repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
“Successful people are simply those with successful habits.” – Brian Tracy
“Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.” – Benjamin Franklin
“All people are the same; only their habits differ.” – Confucius
“Wouldn’t it be great to be gifted? In fact… It turns out that choices lead to habits. Habits become talents. Talents are labeled gifts. You’re not born this way, you get this way.” – Seth Godin
“Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do.” ― William Makepeace Thackeray
“The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.” – Steven Pressfield
“If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.” – Colin Powell
“Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.” – Jim Rohn
“Creativity is a habit, and the best creativity is the result of good work habits.” – Twyla Tharp
“The creative habit is like a drug. The particular obsession changes, but the excitement, the thrill of your creation lasts.” – Henry Moore
“If your habits don’t line up with your dream, then you need to either change your habits or change your dream.” – John Maxwell
“The secret to permanently breaking any bad habit is to love something greater than the habit.” ―Bryant McGill
“You’ll never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.” ―John C. Maxwell
“True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing.” – Jean Cocteau
“Nothing so needs reforming as other people’s habits.” ― Mark Twain
“Without struggle, no progress and no result. Every breaking of habit produces a change in the machine.” – George Gurdjieff
“Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.” – Benjamin Franklin
“A nail is driven out by another nail; habit is overcome by habit.” ― Erasmus
“A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.” – Mark Twain
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“Drop by drop is the water pot filled.” – Buddha
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With over 30 books to his name, Waite’s distinctive images are recognized around the world and his work has received wide critical acclaim over many years.
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My Open Studio 2019 event is over but …
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Every year I unveil new images in my gallery.
For the first time my wife is joining me.
And you can see our collaborative works.
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Tour our working studios.
View rarely seen portfolios and studies.
Participate in artists’ talks at 2 pm each day.
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After you enjoy my special exhibit/event …
Caponigro Arts – New Work / Open Studio
… you’ll have so many more exciting opportunities!
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Visit the studios of 5 other artists in Cushing.
Pam Cabanas
Vic Goldsmith
Jody Payne
David Sears
David Vickery
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Visit 2 small museums
The Langlais Sculpture Preserve
(where Andrew Wyeth’s iconic Christina’s World was painted).
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The Cushing Salt & See Art Tour
It also includes 8 private gardens open to the public.
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Plus, Rockland “The Art Capital Of Maine”, is hopping now!
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The Center For Maine Contemporary Art
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Visit 7 artist’s studios in Cushing, Maine August 4th.
Pick up a map at the Langlais Sculpture Preserve.
Pam Cabanas
John Paul Caponigro
Bernard Langlais
Jody Payne
David Sears
David Vickery
Plus see Vick Goldstein’s studio.
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You can view my work in 4 exhibitions in Rhode Island and Maine.
Find details about each exhibition here.
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Cushing, Maine
Exhibit – New Work | Open Studio – Aug 3 – 4
Portland, Maine
Exhibit – Melt Down – Aug 2 – Sep 21
Exhibit – Barbara Goodbody Collection – June 27 – Oct 30
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East Greenwich, Rhode Island
Exhibit – The Spell Of The Sensuous – July 25 – Sep 5
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Opening & Artists Talk
July 25th
Artist Talk 3 PM
Opening Reception 6-8 pm
Location
YJ Contemporary Fine Art Gallery
42 Ladd St. STE 107
East Greenwich, RI 02818
The Spell of the Sensuous: The Fluid Nature of Perception, featuring the photography of John Paul Caponigro and Joyce Tenneson, opens at YJ Contemporary Fine Art on Thursday, July 25th. The exhibition celebrates the works of two of the nation’s foremost photographers known for their ability to create images that are poetic, evocative and mystical. The exhibition will present iconic examples of Joyce Tenneson’s portfolio of work- including images from her figurative portraiture series, her “Intimacy” series, and images featured in her 2012 book “Trees and the Alchemy of Light”– alongside works by fine art environmental photographer John Paul Caponigro – including images from his Alignment, Exhalation, and Illumination series. A review of the exhibition is featured in the July/August issue of Art New England magazine.
The artists will give a gallery talk on Thursday, July 25th at 3pm to discuss their creative process and photographic style. The talk is free and open to the public but requires advance registration. (Register here) An opening reception will follow from 6-8pm that evening.
The exhibition at YJ Contemporary Fine Art runs through September 5th.