I give you “the rules” by Corita Kent – found on the corita.org website which was a great place to learn a little more about where these rules came from! Thanks Keri Smith for sharing them on her blog!
* Rule 10
“WE’RE BREAKING ALL OF THE RULES. EVEN
OUR OWN RULES. AND HOW DO WE DO THAT
BY LEAVING PLENTY OF ROOM FOR X QUANTITIES.” JOHN CAGE
HELPFUL HINTS: ALWAYS BE AROUND. COME OR GO TO EVERY- THING. ALWAYS GO TO CLASSES. READ ANYTHING YOU CAN GET YOUR HANDS ON. LOOK AT MOVIES CAREFULLY, OFTEN. SAVE EVERYTHING IT MIGHT COME IN HANDY LATER. THERE SHOULD BE NEW RULES NEXT WEEK.Corita Kent’s Rules & Hints for Students and Teachers.
Kent, Corita & Jan Steward, Learning by Heart; Bantam Books, 1992.
From that book:
The mind can be a noisy and cluttered place that can drown out the heart. Sifting through a maze of standards and frameworks for the visual arts could add to the noise and distract from the experience. Beginning with the rules or the words to create the art can lead to a dead end and muddy the search for what genuinely touches the artist. It’s easy to get caught up in the verbiage trying to get it right. I offer this caution as a reminder that making and creating are the real thing, the words that describe them are secondary.
