What to do with your feelings - Austin Kleon
Be aware of strong responses. If you’re immediately turned off by an experience, it’s worth examining why. Powerful reactions often indicate deeper wells of meaning. And perhaps by exploring them, you’ll be led to the next step on your creative path.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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
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Art and the artist both suffer most when the artist gets too heavy, too focused on results.
Austin Kleon • Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon
Anxiety is energy with no place to go. Keyword: energy. You want to act. You have that energy in you. You just have to tap it. To tap it, you have to create a path for it to flow through.
Jessica Abel • Growing Gills: How to Find Creative Focus When You’re Drowning in Your Daily Life
... 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
Recognizing this reality—that the reaction doesn’t belong to you—is the only sane way to create. If people enjoy what you’ve created, terrific. If people ignore what you’ve created, too bad. If people misunderstand what you’ve created, don’t sweat it. And what if people absolutely hate what you’ve created? What if people attack you with savage vitr
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