ART Don't Think...Just Paint

It isn't easy, you know. It does take an incredible amount of discipline, you don't just paint just when you feel like it or you're not going to build up much of a body of work. Inspiration comes to you while you're aomtomg rather than before....For me the discipline of painting and the discipline of prayer are identical, in that I have to let myself be got out of the way because that's not a do-it-yourself activity, and listen....When you paint, don't think, just paint. You think before, you think after, you don't think during. When I'm praying, when I'm truly praying, I'm not thinking, I'm not speaking, I'm shutting up, so perhaps if God has something to say I can hear it. So painting too is an art of listening, listening to what has to be said.

Scarlett (char) Schreiber