A quote from Chuck Close
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A quote from Chuck Close
Without diligence, inspiration alone rarely yields work of much consequence. In
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
“Amateurs look for inspiration; the rest of us just get up and go to work.”
Chuck Close
Chuck Close
Do you want to write? Sit down at the keyboard. Wanna paint? Stand before an easel. Wanna dance? Get your butt into the studio. Want the goddess to show up for you? Show up for her.
Steven Pressfield • The Artist's Journey: The Wake of the Hero's Journey and the Lifelong Pursuit of Meaning
“The advice I like to give anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process
... See morePoet and art critic Charles Baudelaire explains how great ideas arise:
"Inspiration is merely the reward for working every day."
Source: Curiosites Esthetiques (1868)
"Inspiration is merely the reward for working every day."
Source: Curiosites Esthetiques (1868)