The Artist's Training

1. Smoke excessively for three months and then stop.
2. Buy your clothes only from a secondhand store.
3. Stand in a field of wheat and stare at the sunset everyday for a month.
4. Hang out in the Paris metro from 5:00 a.m. to 12:30 a.m. once a month.
5. Work as a cleaner for a rich Parisian family in the 16th arrondissement twice a week.
6. Draw a lot when you feel sleepy.
7. Draw for an entire day.
8. Do not drink Coca-Cola.
9. Go to a church or a temple regularly but do not worship God.
10. Follow a dog for a week.
11. Heat ink to 100°c before use.
12. Rent an oxygen tank and meditate at the bottom of a swimming pool.
13. Sleep 48 hours once every 6 months.
14. Read the dictionary one hour a day for 5 months.
15. Buy the bags and clothes of a homeless person.
16. Give your favorite drawing to the curator of the Louvre.
17. Dress carefully and saunter barefoot in Paris for a week.
18. Do not pick the left nostril of your nose with your right hand.
19. No more sex.
20. Paint watercolor when you take a bath.
21. Eat only foreign food for 6 months.
22. Throw out the most expensive thing in your room.
23. Exchange your things with one another.
24. Listen to the same music for 13 hours.
25. Beat a dog and run away as fast as you can.
26. Find someone who looks like you and your dog.
27. Plant a flower.
28. Change your surname.
29. Sell all that you have.
30. Buy 7 identical suits and wear them for a year.
31. Collect 99 different species of thorns.
32. Try to recall your first memory and then the second, the third, the fourth, the fifth...etc.
33. Sing in front of a painting in a museum.
34. Cry with your modem everyday.
35. Eat lots of fruit.
36. Talk with your grandfather often.
37. Dance in a dark room.