More light- Austin Kleon

Art and the artist both suffer most when the artist gets too heavy, too focused on results.

The sooner you welcome uncertainty and not-knowing as normal ways of being, the better off you’ll be.

So the first one is this Japanese novelist, Junichiro Tanizaki’s 1933 essay, “In Praise of Shadows.” And this is a very small book, or a very long essay, in which Tanizaki kind of muses on his own taste, and why he designed his house in a certain way, and why he chooses food in a certain way or installs lamps in a certain way. And the point at whic... See more