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Composers as Gardeners
"The question is: ‘Is the act of getting attention a sufficient act for an artist? Or is that in fact the job description?’"
Maria Popova • Brian Eno on Creativity, Confidence, and How Attention Creates Value
In their book The Gardens of Democracy, Eric Liu and Nick Hanauer argue that moving from ‘machinebrain’ to ‘gardenbrain’ thinking calls for a simultaneous shift away from believing that things will self-regulate to realising that things need stewarding. ‘To be a gardener is not to let nature take its course; it is to tend,’ they write, ‘Gardeners d
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Almost every artist describes their way of working as a curious combination of invention, which is conscious, and discovery, which is not.
Margaret Heffernan • Uncharted
