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“Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
The biggest problem of success is that the world conspires to stop you doing the thing that you do, because you are successful. There was a day when I looked up and realised that I had become someone who professionally replied to email, and who wrote as a hobby. I started answering fewer emails, and was relieved to find I was writing much more.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
People who know what they are doing know the rules, and know what is possible and impossible. You do not. And you should not. The rules on what is possible and impossible in the arts were made by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible by going beyond them. And you can.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
The problems of failure are hard. The problems of success can be harder, because nobody warns you about them.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
If I did work I was proud of, and I didn't get the money, at least I'd have the work.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
The things I did because I was excited, and wanted to see them exist in reality have never let me down, and I've never regretted the time I spent on any of them.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
If you have an idea of what you want to make, what you were put here to do, then just go and do that.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
If you don't know it's impossible it's easier to do. And because nobody's done it before, they haven't made up rules to stop anyone doing that again, yet.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
Most of us only find our own voices after we've sounded like a lot of other people. But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.
jamesclear.com • “Make Good Art” by Neil Gaiman
Luck is useful. Often you will discover that the harder you work, and the more wisely you work, the luckier you get. But there is luck, and it helps.