Aster's Library

There’s a King Lear that’s played the role an unfathomable amount of times and after closing his final performance he still has new ideas and choices he wished he could try.

Richard Powers quote about thinking of better ways to word sentences forever after publishing.

It has the problem most debut novels have, it’s trying to answer every question in the whole world.

Or, to put it another way, it should feel like work rather than labor. This criterion was proposed by art critic Dave Hickey, who, after writing about and working among many of the great visual artists of our time, said in an interview, of creative work, “I think that if you don’t like it and it’s not easy, you shouldn’t be doing it … I mean it’s&n

If your intention is to ‘make art’, then maybe you’ll get a couple of good paintings. You may even get a show or two.

But I think of it this way: I don’t make art. I make things. Framing it like that keeps what I’m doing from becoming precious. And that’s a good thing, because to be precious is to be timid—and that’s bad. Creativity requires attenti