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22 art quotes about Flexibility | Submit more Flexibility art quotes

The more flexible the arrangement [working from home] the more likely one ends up twisted like a pretzel. (Adam)

If there is something wonderful happening in the paint, stay open to that and work with it rather than against it. Stay flexible to the adventure of creativity... (Donna Baspaly)

Stay loose and flexible, and keep your expectations very low. (Chris Baty)

The conscience is the most flexible material in the world. Today you cannot stretch it over a mole hill; while tomorrow it can hide a mountain. (Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)

Flexibility is the evolution of a finished piece. (Tony Calderone)

The brain's strong point is its flexibility. It is unsurpassed at making shrewd guesses and at grasping the total meaning of information presented to it. (Jeremy Campbell)

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility. (Mason Cooley)

The creative thinker is flexible and adaptable and prepared to rearrange his thinking. (A. J. Cropley)

The creative person is flexible - able to change as the situation changes, to break habits, to face indecision and changes in conditions without undue stress. (Frank Goble)

Representational painters: loosen the grip of inflexibility! Abstract painters: tighten your hold on crafting your images! In both types of painting students need to unlearn what one has acquired. (Josh Goldberg)

Specialization is for insects. (Robert A. Heinlein)

Thus, flexibility, as displayed by water, is a sign of life. Rigidity, its opposite, is an indicator of death. (Anthony Lawlor)

A large portion of success is derived from flexibility. It is all very well to have principles, rules of behavior concerning right and wrong. But it is quite as essential to know when to forget as when to use them. (Alice Foote MacDougall)

Even though we require flexibility to negotiate our changing circumstances, we are rather built to anxiously turn away from alternatives. (Eric Maisel)

When you have no intention, then you have no tension! Be flexible. (Mooji)

The hallmark of creative people is their mental flexibility... Sometimes they are open and probing, at others they're playful and off-the-wall. At still other times, they're critical and faultfinding. And finally they're doggedly persistent in striving to reach their goals. (Roger von Oech)

It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born. (Odilon Redon)

Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. (Tony Robbins)

Be flexible - the order in which you introduce the elements of a painting should not be a rigid system. What worked last time may not work this time. (Richard Schmid)

What is malleable is always superior to that which is immovable. This is the principle of controlling things by going along with them, of mastery through adaptation. (Lao Tzu)

Blessed are the flexible, for they shall not be bent out of shape. (Author unknown)

If I can get the big shapes manipulated into a strong pattern, there is tremendous flexibility in interpreting the details. This flexibility allows me to paint intuitively and emotionally... (Eric Wiegardt)


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