mcauleyhouseartists: Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Nettles - You Will (The OWN Song) (Audio)

Wednesday, March 25, 2015

Jennifer Hudson, Jennifer Nettles - You Will (The OWN Song) (Audio)

Hope you like this song as much as I do !

The Lyrics- In case you want to sing along :)

"You Will (The Own Song)"

(with Jennifer Hudson)

Sometimes it's not easy

It's easy to give up

You do your best, seems like your best isn't good enough

Don't let that stop you, stop it and its traps

Keep moving forward, you don't have to look back

Break down the doors

Break through the walls

You already have it all

Own every breath

Own every minute

Who lives a life that's got no limits

Only one thing you need to know

Just never think, just never think you've won, and you will, and you will, and you will, you will

No need to give in

There's noting you can't take

Cause what you're made of wasn't make to break

You're even stronger, stronger than you know

You could stand together or stand on your own

All your can dream

All you can plan

It's already in your hand

Own every breath

Own every minute

Who lives a life that's got no limits

Only one thing you need to know

Just never think, just never think you won't, and you will, and you will, and you will, you will

You got no fear to stop you

So leave the life you're born to live

Living my positive

Own every breath

Own every minute

Who lives a life that's got no limits

Own every breath

Own every minute

Who lives a life that's got no limits

Only one thing you need to know

Just never think, just never think you've won, and you will, and you will, and you will, you will

About the Art Program

5 Ways to Grow as an Artist

So how would a Cassatt or a Henri or Picasso approach painting differently than we do today? How might this heartfelt fear of others controlling our painting process impact our self-understanding as artists? Here are five possible answers:

1. Making a successful picture is not the goal. Think of periods, such as childhood, when we grew, our self-understanding changed and we became more of who we are. There was an endless stream of events where we expressed ourselves and slowly began to discover the things that pleased us. As with the sense of freedom characterized above, the entire payoff was growth. The events of life when we grow are the things that happen along the way. Making art should be exactly the same. Paintings are just the series of events or steps we take. Let them go. Keep moving. Or as Henri implored, “Keep living.”

2. The painting process is always a beginning. As soon as the freshness evaporates (we are bored or lost or acquire interest in something else), stop. Do not think in terms of finishing. Picasso lectures eloquently on this. Finish is the death of our work because it means we are painting an expectation or “to be like” and that puts the brakes on painting to see and feel more deeply. Every beginning is a new prompt, a new point of departure. Begin everything. Finish nothing.

3. Ignore non-artist authorities. Juries, the grantors, the gallery, the direction from above are just so many fingers in our pie. All external measures are dangerous because they not only push us to performing, as opposed to creating, but their sense of worth takes over our own. This is precisely what Parisian artists fought against.

4. Get into a prolonged creative process. Have dozens of paintings in your studio that have been abandoned for one reason or another, left in various stages, unfinished but always complete as expressions of who you were at that moment. Work on several paintings simultaneously. You are not making shoes.

5. Furnish the world with your beauty, let the world see, touch and feel who you are. Scary I know. It is so much easier to hide within safe fortresses, the sources of praise and dignity that we can count on by pleasing our audience. This is the dreaded condition called style. We cannot be free to be who we are if we are not always risking being who we are in front of others.