The Four Artistic Values of an Impressionist Painter

Sincerity

Sincerity is the virtue needed for artists to communicate their ideas about what is good, beautiful, and true about their moment. Here, artists allow themselves the freedom to accept who they are and how they are experiencing their world. This is the means to ignite one’s Dancing Brush.

Excellence

Excellence comes from patience and inspired perseverance in developing one’s craft as an artist. Distinction as an impressionist is not achieved through being perfect; it is based upon consistent habits with a focus towards expressing and being fully alive.

Freedom

Freedom comes from developing a personalized craft, which is competence within a chosen material and method, led by a well-formed temperament. Artistic freedom is earned in the crucible of life as an inclined soul with a mission. Thus, one to be free is to choose a course of action that serves the good.

Joy

Joy comes from understanding one’s mission in serving the greater good. It means one sees the things that matter most, that are not superseded by the things that matter least. Priorities come to be set in such a way so that one’s pursuit is for the good, beautiful, and true.