Welcome to the Sabby Painter Podcast, the Podcast for Artists who Mean Business. Here's your

host, Antrice Wood.

Hello, it's Antrice and welcome to the S painter podcast. Before we get started I wanted to let you

know that I have a couple of special edition teas and hoodies available for you. I get a lot of

inspiration from reading biographies, so I made a few designs with

quotes that I really find inspiring.

Leonardo da Vinci said, one can have no smaller or greater mastery than the mastery of oneself.

This idea is present on so many levels in our lives, while painting it means keeping the inner critic at bay so that we can create. our It means mastering our impulses, like checking Facebook or email when we should be present with another person or our art.

So I created a design with this quote as a reminder to myself and to you to pause and act with intention

instead of reacting without thought and to choose kindness rather than beating

ourselves up when our own actions remind us that yes we are in fact human just like

everyone else. Another quote that resonates with me is a simple one. The only

time I feel alive is when I'm painting. Van Gogh said that.

Van Gogh was haunted by many demons and it was his painting practice that gave him peace and vitality.

I don't know about you, but I am sometimes prone to giving other people's needs priority

over my own.

It sneaks up on me.

An hour here or there for my studio time seems pretty innocuous.

But it adds up and when I don't honor my studio time I suffer and frankly so to the people I love. This quote by Van Gogh is my reminder that if I want

to feel alive I need to honor and protect my painting practice. Lastly my favorite wild-haired scientist Albert Einstein once said,

the true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but creativity.

I can come up with any number of interpretations for that one, but the literal

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