6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
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6 Famous Artists Talk About What It’s Like to Overcome Fear and Create Beauty
Art & Fear: Observations On the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
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Creativity isn’t about waiting until you feel fearless, it’s about making something despite the fear. And then doing it again. And again. And again.
For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about me, when actually it was the most mundane. In fact, my fear was probably the only 100 percent mundane thing about me. I had creativity within me that was original; I had a personality within me that was original; I had dreams an
... See moreElizabeth Gilbert • Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
I made a decision a long time ago that if I want creativity in my life—and I do—then I will have to make space for fear, too. Plenty of space. I decided that I would need to build an expansive enough interior life that my fear and my creativity could peacefully coexist, since it appeared that they would always be together.