ART MASTERS GUIDEBOOK

Art Masters Guidebook is a guided tour of the Artisic Life. The Artistic Life is an exploration of ourselves. It is said that Art is the art of perfection. Here's to a perfect you & me.

Art Masters Guidebook is a collection of Artlife Trivia, Superstar Quotes, and Art Performance Cues, which are useful for entertaining parties, and talent show games Doing something creative every day is the goal. It's easy to be creative. Try reading something in Art Masters Guidebook, and then, just do it..

               

1. ART PERFORMANCES

Find yourself an audience, and do one of the following actions,
as a creative art performance, every day...

Perform a creative act
Describe creativity
Act creatively

Feel inspired
Show some spirit

Share a thought
Speak your mind
Express yourself fully
Describe your feelings

SAY SOMETHING ARTISTIC..

Demonstrate the Artistic Life
Describe The Art of Living Fully

Tell other people why you're worth the money..
Show the other players what you're all about...

Tell others about your life, with feeling.
Create a performance from something around you.

Use body language to communicate with someone.
Use body language to express your feelings.

Make a dramatic movement.
Make a dramatic moment.
Make a moment dramatic.

Make someone happy.
Teach someone some dance moves.

Lead some people in a dance choreography.
Dance, alone or with partner, with or without music.
Put on a dance performance, moving your body expressively.

You’re performing in a talent show. Introduce yourself and your act.

You’re an MC (Master of Ceremonies) for a talent show. Introduce one of the players

Imagine being an MC (Master of Ceremonies) for a tv show and introduce someone.

Present an award to someone famous.

 
Face everyone.
Put on a face.
Paint your face.

Laugh spontaneously
Give all your heart and soul.

Sing up a storm.
Swing from a star
Raise your hands up in the air.
Do a little dance and get down tonight.

Dance like the wind.
Talk like you mean it.

Offer someone helpful advice.
Count your blessings.

Win some, and lose some.
Wake from a dream.

Talk to a mirror.
Describe your shoes.

Give a guided tour of someone’s body.
Give a guided tour of your own body, from head to toe.

Model a hat.
Act like you’re a model walking down a runway in a fashion show.

Give directions for finding a famous cultural landmark, theatre or concert hall.

Talk like you’re an Artcity Tour Guide on a bus, commenting on things you see.

Argue with a pop machine that has taken your money without giving you a drink.
Describe the difficulties one can encounter when one is lost in a desert.

Pretend you’re a doctor examining other players.
Die a theatrical death and put on a good show.

Demonstrate your energy centers. (Chakras)
Describe the Seven Spirits of God.

Focus on life
Indulge yourself
Behave yourself

Blow your own horn
Lift someone’s spirits
Orchestrate your next move

Animate yourself or someone else
Make a mountain out of a molehill
Hold on to life for goodness sake
Let your fingers do the walking

Strike a chord
Shake that thing
Trust your senses

Get yourself together
Concentrate and focus
Center your energy before speaking

Communicate on a higher plane
Act like the force is with you
Act like time is on your side

Make up your mind
Don’t mince words

Be a motor mouth
Mix your metaphors

Lose your train of thought
Lose your mind
Peter out

Mimic someone
Go with the flow

Stand up and sit down slowly
Stare at the sky
Scan the horizon

Listen to the wind
Light a fire under someone

Think of someone you used to know.
Think of someone you’d like to be with on New Years Eve & what you’d do together.
Think of someone you miss or someone you want to know better.

Schmooz someone
Wander around
Make a friend

Make contact with someone
Talk with the Great Spirit

Pray for help
Feel the spirit
Bless the children

Wander into an abyss
Weather a storm

Make a point
Single out someone
Tear a strip off someone

Stand up for something
Watch your weight

Introduce yourself
Make an introduction

Pitch an idea.
Bet the farm on a whim.

Whip up some enthusiasm.
Call someone a whippersnapper.

Show a cat how sensual you can be.
Pet a person like you’re petting a dog.

Talk about your latest obsession.
Describe confusion in your life.

Don’t mess around.
Now, Mess around.

Calm your nerves
Tremble like a leaf
Blossom like a flower

Rise to the occasion
Show your mettle

Show fear
Make a frown

Look into someone’s eyes
Try to hypnotize someone

Say something fascinating
Walk a fine line between love and hate

Express an idea.
Give a balanced opinion

Explore concepts openly.
Explain how to do something.

Explore thoughts, like ..
Why can’t people express themselves?
How can we express ourselves more fully?
How can I express myself fully?

Describe some differences between..
amateurs & professional artists
politicians & preachers
men and women
boys and girls

Sing a song.
Sing a sad song.
Sing a love song.
Sing John Lennon’s Imagine

Imagine a perfect world.
Imagine a beautiful world.
Imagine a more beautiful world.
Design a visual symbol for a perfect world.

Jump for joy.
Swing into gear.
Follow that dream.

Climb that mountain.
Change your behavior.
Practice what you preach.

Go stand in the corner.
Spot an opportunity.
Stretch a dollar.
Learn by doing.

Create art from the heart.
Draw a picture from heart.
Draw a picture of your heart.
Draw a picture of your body.
Draw a picture of your mind.
Explain, where is your mind.

2. ANSWER AS BEST YOU CAN..

How artistic are you?
How perfect are you?
How imperfect are you?

How much do you weigh, really?
How big are you, in your mind?

Tell the story of your life, or talk about someone else.
Tell others what you’re going through today, this week, this month.

Tell someone what kind of artist you are -
ie. an amateur, professional, master, star, superstar, singing saint.

What’s more important - fame or fortune?
Explain your answer.

What’s more important – love or stardom?
Explain your answer.

Express a point of view.
Stand up for something, or someone.

Explain your perspective on something.
Discuss ideas for saving the world, and from what.

Act normal.
Act normal for a change.

Mingle with paupers and kings.
Rise above the crowd and exceed expectations.

Describe or demonstrate human nature.

Compare the spirit of creativity and
the nature of self-destructiveness.

It’s time to reinvent yourself, like an
empty canvas on a blank page. Just do it.

Art requires articulation.
Do you agree or disagree and why?

Art requires talent, some say.
Do you agree or disagree and why?

Art requires discipline, some say.
Do you agree or disagree and why?

Art requires a sense of perfection.
Do you agree or disagree and why?

Art requires a sense of superiority.
Do you agree or disagree and why?

Art requires sacrifice, some say.
Do you agree or disagree and why?

Art requires a sense of humility.
Do you agree or disagree and why?

Art requires a sense of humor.
Do you agree or disagree and why?

Exclaim in a loud voice, “I’m having difficulty understanding the meaning of life.
Whatever can be wrong with me?”

Describe, Define or Illustrate - Artistry, Starpower, Love, Hate, Anger, Pain, Passion, Creation, Creativity, Growth, Wisdom, Mastery, Perfection, Stardom, Sainthood, Godliness, and God.



3. How would you explain the meaning of these ARTLIFE QUOTES

Good enough is not good enough. - Anonymous

The arts are the highest expression of man. - Confucius

Beauty without expression is boring. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Frank Capra

Every artist was first an amateur. - Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882

The most potent muse is our own inner child. - Stephen Nachmanovitch

Joy is a sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose. - Charles Du Bois, What Is Literature?

The fact that no one understands you doesn't make you an artist. - Unknown

Art is the desire to express ourselves, and to record our personal reactions to the world we live in. - Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better. - John Updike

There is a fundamental human desire to see something done well. - Nathan Whitlock

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, a defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. - George Lois

Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training. - Anna Freud

The essence of creativity is novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it. - Carl Rogers, On Becoming a Person

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. - Albert Einstein

If a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow her child with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. - Eleanor Roosevelt

We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that’s waiting for us. - Joseph Campbell

Art is both creation and recreation. - Lin Yutang, The Importance of Living, 1937

Art is like therapy. - Britney Spears

Dance like there's nobody watching
Love like you'll never get hurt
Sing like there's nobody listening
Live like it's heaven on earth, and
Speak from the heart to be heard. - William Purkey

All of the arts are essential for a balanced life. - Confucius

The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing. - Marcus Aurelius

It’s never too late to become what you might have been. - George Eliot

When you go up to the bell, ring it. Or else don’t go up to the bell. - Mel Brooks

When people pay to see you perform, they want to see a good show. - Elvis Presley

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans. - John Lennon, Beautiful Boy

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can bring a more pleasant form of misery. - Spike Milligan

Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice. - William Jennings Bryan

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. - Joseph Chilton Pearce

There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience. - Archibald McLeish

Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't finished. - Richard Bach

The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it. - W M Lewis

Live as if you are going to die tomorrow. Learn as if you are going to live forever. - Mahatma Gandhi

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist. It’s a beautiful relationship, and the less the artist does the better. - Andre Gide

The purpose of life is a life of purpose. - Robert Byrne

May you live every day of your life. - Jonathan Swift

It's kind of fun to do the impossible. - Walt Disney



4. Theatrical Art Performances - Deliver a dramatic line, and continue with a story...

I coulda been great. I coulda been a contender.

The truth can set you free. For me, I’m not so sure.

I live in my own little world. But it's ok. They know me here.

A good friend bails you out of jail, but a close friend says, Damn that was fun.

I don't do drugs. I get the same effect standing up fast.

Whenever I feel blue, I start breathing again.

Just remember...if the world didn't suck, we'd all fall off.

We are all responsible for what we do, unless we’re celebrities.

Wouldn't you know it, brain cells come and go, but fat cells live forever.

Do illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?

Why does a round pizza come in a square box?

Is Disneyworld a people trap operated by a mouse?

Can a hearse carrying a corpse drive in the carpool lane?

If vegetable oil is made from vegetables, what is baby oil made from?

If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons?

As I said before, I never repeat myself.

I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

Never tell your mom her diet's not working.

When your dad says to you, “Do I look stupid?” don't answer him.

Never hold a kitten and a dust buster at the same time.

Why don't they make mouse-flavored cat food?

Never trust a dog to guard your food.

I plan on living forever. So far, so good.

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.

An optimist thinks this is the best possible world. A pessimist fears this is true.

If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

It's frustrating when you know all the answers and nobody asks you the questions.

Making a living is not the same thing as making a life.

Our purpose in life may be to entertain each other.

Our purpose in life may be to find a perfect partner.

Our purpose in life may be to serve as a warning to others.

Always remember, you're unique, just like everyone else.

If you always tell the truth, you won't have to remember what you said.

If quitters never win, and winners never quit, what fool came up with the brilliant saying, Quit while you're ahead?

A day without sunshine is like night.

I just got lost in thought. It was unfamiliar territory.

No one is listening until you make a mistake.

A closed mouth gathers no foot.

If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you.

Some days, you are the bug. Some days, you're the windshield.

Good judgment comes from bad experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

There are two theories for winning a war and neither one works.

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?

Are you jealous that the voices are talking to me.

Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.

A happy person is someone who enjoys the scenery on a detour.

We cannot change the direction of the wind, but we can adjust our sails.

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened.

When I remember that I have it all, I sometimes forget how to use it.

Everyone seems normal until you get to know them.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

Heck is where people go who don't believe in gosh

I have an arts degree. Do you want fries with that?

My Dog Can Lick Anyone

Procrastinate Now

If all is not lost, where is it?

Is it possible to be totally partial?

Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.

I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it.

It's hard to make a comeback when you haven't been anywhere.

What if the world beats a path to your door when you're in the bathroom.

Listen closely, my life needs background music.

You can’t take it with you.

You’re as young as you feel.

There’s no problem that can’t be solved.

Living well is the best revenge.

Your presence may be a present to the world.

Most of the answers we need are inside us.

It’s better not to take things too seriously.

It’s good to laugh.

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excerpts from Art Masters Guidebook.



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