"the process is the practice. the artifacts are just the side effects"
The process is where you find yourself, your voice, your vision, your heart, and your soul. Everything else is a byproduct of that exploration. https://t.co/PeMuYj1PPx
"the process is the practice. the artifacts are just the side effects" The process is where you find yourself, your voice, your vision, your heart, and your soul. Everything else is a byproduct of that exploration. https://t.co/PeMuYj1PPx
That’s because what we seek and how we create aren’t the same thing. Reassurance is futile—and focusing on outcomes at the expense of process is a shortcut that will destroy your work.
Seth Godin • The Practice
Art is the work we do where there is no right answer—and yet the journey is worth the effort. We might make art with a keyboard, with a paintbrush, or with our actions. Mostly, we do it because we lean into a practice, trusting we have a shot at making a difference. We do it without a guarantee, with simply a practice we’ve chosen to commit to.
Seth Godin • The Practice
We tell ourselves varying stories of who we are and how the work gets made. But none of them matter. All that matters is the work itself. The art that actually gets made and how it’s perceived.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
“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]