Picasso on Success and Why You Should Never Compromise in Creative Work
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Picasso on Success and Why You Should Never Compromise in Creative Work
You can also pursue an unrelated career that provides security while keeping art as a hobby, a hobby that’s the most important thing in your life. All paths are of equal merit.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
To survive and thrive you need to have the conviction to create things your are proud of with people you love and in a way that allows you to have a meaningful life however you determine that. Anything more than that is not just “bonus,” it can actually lead to your undoing. I don’t mean financial ruin, I mean that you may loose that independence a
... See morePart of Picasso’s lifelong practice was to give himself to this greater power. This freedom was actually part of his job—paradoxically, part of his discipline. The harnessing of freedom is the key gesture of the contemporary genius.