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\nWhile in school working toward my art degree<\/a> I just didn’t seem to quite fit in with either my teachers or my fellow students. As a business-student transfer I was just a little too uptight and logical. And as a minimalist it was really hard for me to throw everything into my artwork. My natural tendency is to do the least necessary to share my message.<\/p>\n
Average Joe<\/h2>\n
Even a couple of family members said that I wouldn’t make a good artist, I’m not eccentric enough. And upon first glance I can see where that might appear to be the case. You’d never pick me out as an artist by the clothes that I wear, the way that I talk, or by any of the other stereotypes that artists seem to perpetuate.<\/p>\n
I’m just not that flamboyant.<\/h2>\n
Don’t get me wrong, I’m still eccentric (but who isn’t?) I mean, I don’t care about listening to music<\/a>. My eccentricity is just more subtle, you almost have to be looking for it to recognize that it’s there.<\/p>\n Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work. I’m an extroverted introvert – I enjoy the company of others and need it but then I need alone time to recharge. So while I love to meet people and make new friends my life is designed to facilitate making art. This means that I spend a lot of my time reading, taking notes, doodling, and playing with art materials.<\/p>\n My goal is to make art and just being me helps me make the art that I enjoy making. Not being flamboyantly eccentric isn’t required. Being myself is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While in school working toward my art degree I just didn’t seem to quite fit in with either my teachers or my fellow students. As a business-student transfer I was just a little too uptight and logical. And as a minimalist it was really hard for me to throw everything into my artwork. My natural … Continue reading I’m Not Eccentric Enough To Be An Artist<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[10,11,9,8],"class_list":["post-24","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-thoughts","tag-artist","tag-creativity","tag-journey","tag-process"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/eccentricity-web.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8lbzG-o","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/french-holt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}It’s about the work<\/h2>\n
\n~ Flaubert<\/p><\/blockquote>\nMy focus is the art.<\/h2>\n
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