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some things I learned this year about making art :) https://t.co/JUxuxvLG1v
... See moreCreativity is about connection—you must be connected to others in order to be inspired and share your own work—but it is also about disconnection. You must retreat from the world long enough to think, practice your art, and bring forth something worth sharing with others. You must play a little hide-and-seek in order to produce something worth bein
Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
Amy Whitaker • 1 highlight
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Our business in living is to become fluent with…life…and art can help this.” And elsewhere: “Art…is not self expression but self alteration.” Artmaking isn’t just something we do for the outcome; it’s something we do for the process, which includes the process of becoming the person with the taste, knowledge, sensitivity, agency, and ambition to pr... See more
Just absorb as much as you can and document the interesting bits—the places where an artist did something unexpected and incredibly imaginative—for use in your work later.
Jessica Hische • In Progress: See Inside a Lettering Artist's Sketchbook and Process, from Pencil to Vector
If your intention is to ‘make art’, then maybe you’ll get a couple of good paintings. You may even get a show or two.
But I think of it this way: I don’t make art. I make things . Framing it like that keeps what I’m doing from becoming precious. And that’s a good thing, because to be precious is to be timid—and that’s bad. Creativity requires attent
... See moreKieran O‘Hare • Following the White- Hot Fire Inside of You
Good habits create good art. The way we do anything is the way we do everything. Treat each choice you make, each action you take, each word you speak with skillful care. The goal is to live your life in the service of art.