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Cage has a lot of interesting ideas present through out his hints and rules. I specifically liked his rule about not creating and analyzing your work all at the same time. A lot of people stop working on something because they don't like the way it looks even before it's finished. By doing this people eliminate any chance of a project actually becoming something amazing. A project only half finished can't be fully examined because only the finished project will portray everything that the artist was trying to instill in it. In general though I agreed with all of Cage's hints and found them to all be helpful and enlightening.

Mau has numerous helpful ideas on growth and most of them seemed particularly useful. His whole idea on being open to change and allowing it to help you grow is an idea that most people don't realize is essential to creating any form of art. Being able to take life experiences and the experience of surrounding events and allowing it to help you grow is one of the main principles that art was based upon. Artists use there emotions, life, and surroundings to create great pieces of work and without the ability to draw on life and thus helping you to grow you are limiting what you can create. For the most part, Mau's ideas where very enlightening but I found his idea on not using software and his reasoning for it to be concerning. Yes, everybody has it but everybody does not have the patience, attention to detail, or the creativity to utilize it to its full potential. Before this class I had a limited idea of just what kind of things could be done with photoshop and now I know that the only limit to what can be done with this program is the software and a persons creativity.