The Rules: The ones I actually try to follow

(this sign hung in the art room, stenciled by sister corita)

Immaculate Heart College Art Department Rules

Rule I Find a place you trust and then

try trusting it for awhile.

Rule 2 General duties of a student: Pull everything out of your teacher.

Pull everything out of your fellow students.

Rule 3 General duties of a teacher:

Pull everything out of your students.

Rule 4 Consider everything an experiment.

Rule 5 Be self disciplined.  This means 

finding someone wise or smart and 

choosing to follow them. 

To be disciplined is to follow in a good way.

To be self disciplined is to follow in a better way.

Rule 6 Nothing is a mistake.  There's no win and

no fail.  There's only make.

Rule 7 THE ONLY RULE IS WORK.

If you work it will lead to something.

It's the people who do all of the work all the time

who eventually catch on to things.

Rule 8 Don't try to create and analyse at the 

same time.  They're different processes.

Rule 9 Be happy whenever you can mage it.  

Enjoy yourself.  It's lighter than you

think.

Rule I0  "We're breaking all of the rules, even

our own rules.  And how do we do that?

By leaving plenty of room for X quantities." John Cage

Helpful Hints:  Always be around.  Come or go to everything.  Always go to classes.  Read anything you can get your hands o.  Look at movies carefully, often.

Save everything - it might come in handy later.

There should be new rules next week.