Get your teeth into creative wisdoms

Run by leading artists and home to Britain’s oldest art school, the Royal Academy has been championing the practise of contemporary art since 1768. In the run up to the Summer Exhibition – the world’s oldest open submission exhibition – the Get Creative champion has been asking the artists at the heart of the RA for the #CreativeWisdom they’ve found along their artistic journeys.

Creative Wisdom from Royal Academy artists—Get Creative

Across their website and social media channels, Royal Academicians such as Cornelia Parker and Michael Landy have been revealing their feelings on what it is to be an artist, and sharing advice and encouragement to anyone beginning a creative project.

As well as the nuggets of creative inspiration, the Royal Academy has published on its website a series of articles and interviews with Academicians which could help aspiring artists to nurture their talent.

Michael Landy explains why young artists need a thick skin, while Michael Craig Martin, who co-ordinated this year's Summer Exhibition, offers his insights into getting into the art world.

Ten rules for starting a painting
Sometime in his later career, Richard Diebenkorn wrote down ten points of artistic intention
Advice to an aspiring artist
Michael Craig-Martin offers his insights into how to get on in art and the art world
Develop a thick skin
Michael Landy RA on destroying his work, being afraid of Tracey Emin and why young artists need a thick skin
Memory inspires landscapes
Hughie O'Donoghue explains how the nature of memory and a sense of place are driving forces in his latest series of paintings
Improve your life-drawing
The RA Schools’ Head of Sculpture and Printmaking Mark Hampson shares five key pieces of advice for capturing life-drawing
Artist manifestos
The General Election is over but let’s take a look at artists' manifestos that shook up the art world, from Sir Joshua Reynolds to the Guerilla Girls.