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.
If you think, “I don’t like it but someone else will,” you are not making art for yourself. You’ve found yourself in the business of commerce, which is fine; it just may not be art.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
When most people see modern art, they think, “I could do that!” But they didn’t. That is the difference between consumer and creator.
Derek Sivers • How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Are.na co founder https://www.are.na/charles-broskoski talked about the spectrum of productivity and expression at his SPC demo night talk - I think many tools fit quite neatly along the line. But why does it have to be a spectrum with the two at opposite poles?