The Self-Appointed Artists Residency | Amy Stewart
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The Self-Appointed Artists Residency | Amy Stewart
Being an artist within an economic system that favors private property, capital accumulation, wage labor, a price system, and competitive markets belittles my practice into a hobby. I am an amateur with no artist statement, thesis show, or MFA. The money I invest in creating art is a temporary loan to myself that I feel pressured to repay quickly b... See more
Cortney Cassidy • A soft manifesto
I even resisted sitting at a desk, so my studio mates rarely saw me, and most of my work was done in nature, underneath trees, by the water, and sometimes in cafés, galleries, and the botanical garden. And the rest was a vast, empty space that I didn’t know how to navigate any more than I knew how to start drawing from a blank piece of paper.
Martina Gobec • Everything you want is on the other side of “should.”
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On defining your own work
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As writer Jeffrey Kastner observed: “Attention to the world is the proper vocation not just of the artist but of anyone who imagines it as a place worthy of preservation.”
Rob Walker • The Art of Noticing: 131 Ways to Spark Creativity, Find Inspiration, and Discover Joy in the Everyday
An artist is one who does something better than it needs to be done for any foreseeable return to herself. Thus she is in the spirit of gift.
Charles Eisenstein • Inverting the Energy Paradigm
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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
“The process of making art,” writes Rebecca Solnit, “is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity.”[2]