Written in a minute of enthusiastic self-confidence
Art is always sacrifice.
Artist is a victim of art. A happy victim.
Take your fate without a chance, as a gift.
The purpose of life is to prove oneself as a person.
means any other than meanness and betrayal.
The artist must be able to defend himself.
Live long enough, confronting enemies.
Price the enemies.
Enemies are the character’s stones, the engines of your talent.
The trick is the second mind.
Use it always and everywhere, but not in art. Cunning art does not happen.
Defeats are inevitable. Take them indifferent. Dig into the brusstler everyday. Seek. Go back to the attack. Victories are inevitable.
“Everything comes to someone who can wait” (French wisdom).
In creativity-absolute freedom. The creative spirit manifests itself only in freedom.
Dogma-card houses. Tilt them. Follow the inner voice.
Paintings-precious stones in shape; Source of wisdom-by content.
There must be eternity in the paintings.
No ambition, vanity, randomness.
Man is an animal, though noble. Let’s get out of the belly without cruelty. Don’t accumulate it in yourself. Show it perfectly freely in relationships with women. In the by creativity it will be manifested subconsciously.
Creative Courage is the first quality.
Failures are inevitable. Overcome them with perseverance. There will be doubts. Doubt is an asset when switching from one quality to another. The best remedy against doubt is action.
Defend your art with courage.
“Modesty is the shortest way to obscurity.” Joke
Try to be anonymous. Fame means neediness.
Reap the fruits of their labor today, not in 300 years.
If you do not like these commandments, do not accept them, for they are not yours.
P.S. The commandments are not written by me, but by my mysterious double. I have given a way out on the boom to what there is no escape in life. The commandments are not me, but the one I want to be.
Vitaly Tarasov
