{"id":3346,"date":"2020-01-12T00:46:22","date_gmt":"2020-01-12T00:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/?p=3346"},"modified":"2020-01-12T01:32:09","modified_gmt":"2020-01-12T01:32:09","slug":"how-to-be-an-artist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/how-to-be-an-artist\/","title":{"rendered":"How to be an ARTIST"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A friend shared an post,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsy.net\/article\/artsy-editorial-artist-henri-matisse\">How to Be an Artist, According to Henri Matisse<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The 4 points are applicable to a lot of things in life, including photography:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Master the basics, then be expressive<\/li>\n<li>Make up your own rules<\/li>\n<li>Surround yourself with things you love\u0097they will inspire you<\/li>\n<li>Don\u0092t let anything keep you from making art<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>I would add another:<\/p>\n<p>5. &nbsp;Be Passionate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There was a line in an old song, &#8220;If you can&#8217;t be with the one you love, love the one you&#8217;re with&#8230;&#8221;. I always took this to mean, Always find the best in a situation until you get to where you want to be.<\/p>\n<p>Words to live with in the New Year&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4751\" src=\"http:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20200105-_6101621-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20200105-_6101621-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20200105-_6101621-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20200105-_6101621-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20200105-_6101621-50x50.jpg 50w, https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/alanklughammer.com_.20200105-_6101621.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A friend shared an post,&nbsp;How to Be an Artist, According to Henri Matisse.&nbsp; The 4 points are applicable to a lot of things in life, including photography: Master the basics, then be expressive Make up your own rules Surround yourself with things you love\u0097they will inspire you Don\u0092t let anything keep you from making art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,374,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-art","category-facebook","category-philosophy","entry","has-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3346\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanklughammer.com\/info\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}