Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad (Austin Kleon)

“The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty, and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from.” —Lynda Barry

If making your art is adding net misery to the world, walk away and do something else.

In her ongoing project Seat Assignment, artist Nina Katchadourian uses long, disconnected plane rides to make art using only her camera phone,

One of the easiest ways to hate something you love is to turn it into your job:

Play is the work of the child and it is also the work of the artist.

The people who want to control us through fear and misinformation—the corporations, marketers, politicians—want us to be plugged into our phones or watching TV, because then they can sell us their vision of the world. If we do not get outside, if we do not take a walk out in the fresh air, we do not see our everyday world for what it really is, and

Learn to lose in order to recover,

Ann Friedman (especially for her piece, “Not Every Hobby Is a Side Hustle”),

Try to get a feel for nonmechanical time,