Love this from Yancey Strickler:
An artist is a self-employed self-expressor.
A creator is a self-employed commercial expressor.
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Love this from Yancey Strickler: An artist is a self-employed self-expressor. A creator is a self-employed commercial expressor.
choose yourself to be a creator, an innovator, an artist, an investor, a marketer, and an entrepreneur. I say “and” rather than “or” because now you have to be all of the above. Not just one. An artist must also be an entrepreneur.
James Altucher • Choose Yourself!
If you know what you want to do and you do it, that’s the work of a craftsman. If you begin with a question and use it to guide an adventure of discovery, that’s the work of the artist. The surprises along the way can expand your work, and even the art form itself.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
artists? If we allow ourselves to accept the new definition of artist not as a lone genius but as a visionary who brings people and resources together, this creates opportunities for our work to flourish.
Jeff Goins • Real Artists Don't Starve: Timeless Strategies for Thriving in the New Creative Age
I really hate the term content creator. It’s such a corporate way of describing artists, writers, intellectuals, and other creatives who ultimately just want to create work they’re proud of.
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
Part of the problem is that the big social networks are not content platforms supported by advertising. They are better understood as advertising platforms supp... See more
Sari Azout • Things I'm Thinking About
My long-held belief is that an artist's identity is revealed by the work she or he produces.