Comments on: Why You Need a Sense of Urgency in Your Art Business

By: Alyson Stanfield

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:44:49 +0000

In reply to Lori Sokoluk.

Lori: Yes! Oh, boy, wonder how we’d know if anything was perfect. ???

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:43:07 +0000

In reply to Geri deGruy.

OH no! Your work is marvelous, Geri. I hope you are able to create that sense of urgency around getting it out there.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:42:31 +0000

In reply to Raymond D. Hunter,.

Thank you, Raymond.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 22:42:15 +0000

In reply to Heather W. Ernst.

Excellent observation, Heather.

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By: Lori Sokoluk

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 05:40:43 +0000

My first clear sense of urgency related to making art came when I shifted from painting representationally to painting abstractly. All of a sudden, I wasn’t painting pretty landscapes. Lots of people paint pretty landscapes. I realized that the abstract paintings are paintings that only I could paint, so I’d better get myself in gear and get them out there!

On a more tactical level, urgency (determination to complete something by a fast approaching date) helps me focus, act, and complete my work. I don’t have time to fret and fuss and worry. I aim to do the very best I can, rather than aiming for perfection.

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By: Geri deGruy

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:32:18 +0000

Almost every day I have a drive, and excited urgency, to create art and learn learn learn. It’s very strong, and I create a lot of art! Although I want to get more of my art “out there,” (I really do) my drive to do that work is much less and the inertia is very hard to overcome. It’s like herding cats. Argh.

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By: Karin

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 19:51:14 +0000

This is excellent and most helpful. I am printing it out to read daily.

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By: Raymond D. Hunter,

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:56:02 +0000

Right on! Bravo!! Happy Day Alyson. Love to you and yours, Raymond D. Hunter, Sculpatora

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By: Heather W. Ernst

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:39:36 +0000

-Reminders on brevity, not rambling is great.
-For those of us who went from career to kids and now back to professionalism, it’s a reminder that you’ve got to get that objectivity back because your audience has changed!

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By: Patricia A Bingham

Thu, 28 Mar 2019 16:23:34 +0000

I think that as we get older we better understand that life is short and that we better figure out what it is we’re here for. Now. This lends a certain calm urgency (calm, because we’ve been around the block a few times and know that hysteria never works). If we’ve done the work of introspection,we’ve narrowed things down. We’ve found that one idea, that one dream, that keeps popping up year after year, pushed down time and again for any number of reasons. Then finally we realize that we ignore it at our own peril, understanding that regret lasts for a very long time.

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