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This work is so monastic, so alone. And you work a lot. People think artists go to coffee shops and have paint on their pants and they sit around and BS all day long. You know, working artists don't do that. They get up, have a cup of coffee. I turn on classical music. So I start with something, one of the piles, going through a few things, and I find out what I'm in the mood to work on so I don't wreck it, because I work on five or six things from that pile. Then I know what kind of day I'm going to have, and I get started out working. When you get the really rotten, tough days, those are the days you have to stay alert. Because you learn more, you learn a lot of things. It's easy to work on good days. Bad days, it's a real grind. It's easy to put it down and go do something else. But in the art field, it's better to stay with it, pound it out.
When you're out on your own this long, and you look back on what you were teaching in your curriculum, I would totally change it now. Because now I know what it takes to work in the studio. Higher-ed fields should do that in all the fields. They should make people every fifth year go out and do their job, and if they don't do it for a year, they can't come back and teach. Make 'em go out and do it, get in touch with what's going on and how to survive in that field. Because how can you be in touch [if you don't]? A lot of teachers never did anything but teach. How can you teach art when you never did art full-time? There's a huge difference. It really is a huge step. It's kind of like running a marathon and reading a bible and all the encyclopedias in the world at once. When you try to give fully to the studio, you're afraid of it. You don't know if you can do it or not. It's a very big question, can you go into the studio and work all day?See the full content of this document
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If you threw the styles Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt and Marc Chagall into a bowl and stirred them together, Tarmo Watia would come out of the mix, ready to paint. An artist who works with extreme commitment and dedicated routine, Watia has been honored many times over. But Watia isn't a man content to rest on his laurels...
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