How to Be an Artist OG25 fortunes were made and lost

fortunes were made and lost through shimmering silks

you’ll find the strategies

and the age-old rhythms of work

and of social life through an astonishing variety of poetic forms and styles

ancient realm of freemasonry

How to Be an Artist OG25 fortunes were made and lost*** "I wish I had read these rules forty years ago and carried them around like a bible. By chance or design I've followed most of them at some point but it took me a lifetime as an artist to find what worked. They are the generous, loving, enthusiastic, bullshit free advice of a master communicator, just reading them makes me want to charge back into the studio" Grayson Perry "Being an artist is a lonely pursuit twenty four hours a day, seven days a