The document provides lessons and advice from great artists throughout history. It encourages being curious, collaborative, and pushing boundaries. Key lessons include leveraging the tools and techniques of your time, getting feedback from others, continually learning and reinventing yourself, and using your skills to leave a positive legacy. The overall message is that artists can inspire new ways of thinking by staying curious, taking risks, and making their work publicly visible.

1. LESSONS FROM !
THE ARTISTS
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@amyburvall

2. me, !
sketching!
everywhere

4. never say…
@adambellow

5. aren’t we all?

7. caves at chauvet!
32-30,000 BP

8. venus of willendorf!
28-25,000

9. Instagram Art

10. what can we!
learn from!
great artists?

15. once revolution

16. now ubiquitous

20. !
appreciate the fleeting!
…and the era in which you live

21. Monet, 1877

22. Manet, 1882

23. Renoir, 1880s

24. Degas,1893

28. !
personal!
learning

29. !
get messy !
and real

30. !
not reactive
proactive

31. leverage the tech of the day

32. !
tools inform technique!
“we shape our tools and our tools shape us”
marshall mcluhan

33. break your bubble

34. new perspective

35. !
get a posse !
+ collaborate

37. rise above !
your roots

38. move on…and up

39. stay curious +!
sharpen senses

41. I have the answers to the questions
they never ask
- Gwen Burvall

42. !
who you know !
will help you grow

44. make thinking !
visible

45. creativity is…
connecting dots…

47. inspiration!
takes no!
vacation

49. make disciplines!
dance together

50. !
mastery comes !
with muscle

51. think bigger…!
…and differently
do the unexpected

52. see the angel in the marble!
!

53. make your work public

54. tell stories!
visual

55. ancora imparo!
“live to learn” !

57. bricolage is best…!
…be resourceful !

58. find beauty in the broken!

60. find a homebase!

61. make work easily sharable

62. “At last I don’t !
know how to draw”

64. The Wow and the Wonder

65. “We are surrounded !
by poetry on all sides”

66. “just slap anything on !
when you see a blank canvas !
staring at you in the face…”
“break the spell of ‘you can’t’”

67. Do … to Learn

68. Make something !
GOOD!
every day

70. “learn the rules !
like a pro…!
…so you can !
break them !
like an artist”

71. cultivate !
a constellation of creatives

72. !
to know what you’re going to draw!
you have to begin drawing!
work backwards

73. Inspiration exists…!
but it has to find you working

74. change it up - !
reinvent yourself
make like Madonna

75. !
!
look to the past to look forward

76. “art washes away from the soul!
the dust of everyday life”
get in !
a creative habit

77. “It takes a long time!
to grow young”

78. stand for something!
GREATER PURPOSE:

79. use the platform !
you are given

80. !
painting is not done to !
decorate apartments…!
!
…it is an instrument of war

81. live in the “why not?”!

82. find your gift…!
…then give it away

84. !
seek serendipity!
flaunt the fails !
marvel at mistakes

85. curate cleverly!

86. be awed by the ordinary
You need to let the!
little things that would !
ordinarily bore you !
suddenly thrill you.

87. see things in new ways

88. tinker, try, and test!

89. find your niche!

90. make your own movement

91. “The idea is not to!
live forever, !
it is to create !
something that will.”
leave a legacy

92. live !
lightheartedly

93. paint what you like!
and die happy

94. selfies!
who’s inspired you
to change something about
the way you teach?
#getsmART

95. @amyburvall
www.amyburvall.com