Where are we going, exactly?
C’est pourquoi la plupart des artistes verront d’abord ce qu’ils considéreront comme les défauts de leur œuvre. Peut-être même se lamenteront-il dessus en se disant : « Je suis nul, j’ai encore raté, ce n’est pas du tout ce que je voulais faire. » Et cela sera sans doute vrai. Un artiste rate. Du moins, il y a un décalage entre son idée, son intent
... See moreGuillaume MEURICE • Petit éloge de la médiocrité (French Edition)
Finishing any creative project is like simultaneously defying Zeno’s Paradox and the myth of Sisyphus—the idea that you cross a distance halfway and then halfway again, and again, and you never actually reach the other side, except that at some point you just round up, and the project gets pushed over the finish line.
Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
can give meaning to your art pieces after they are already made? i feel like not everything is created with a purpose but ends up with one at the end.
At a certain moment, if you don’t decide to abandon a drawing in order to begin another, the looking involved in what you are measuring and summoning up changes.
John Berger • Bento's Sketchbook
No. We should not. “A painting is never finished. It simply stops in interesting places,” said Paul Gardner. A book is never finished. But at a certain point you stop writing it and go on to the next thing. A film is never cut perfectly, but at a certain point you let go and call it done. That is a normal part of creativity—letting go. We always do
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