When your life falls apart, try picking up the pieces one by one making sure to keep them all.
For in life, as in art, it is only by mixing together the dark with the light that beauty emerges.
–ScrapLady Sharon Barnes
Although I couldn’t name it for many years, in painting I encountered the power of the inner critic to control and limit my life. This force that counters the desire to create is within each of us. Generally the critic doesn’t appear in full force until you are in a situation where you have the opportunity to do what you want, something important, and self-chosen, something with risk.
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