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If people criticize your art you can just quote Benjamin at them https://t.co/8OANNMUpQJ
Dumb breaks things, doing things to things which common sense decrees to be simply wrong. When something is that wrong or that broken, it finds a new life: Thelonious Monk intentionally hitting the wrong notes on the piano, Charles Ives’s use of microtones and overtones, Andy Warhol’s off-register silkscreens. Warhol, the king of dumb, summed it up... See more
Kenneth Goldsmith • Being Dumb
“If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing” - Ben Franklin
Getting locked into making a product that you think the public will want only robs you of authenticity.
Quincy Jones • 12 Notes: On Life and Creativity
If you’re going to do high-level creative work, you have to accept the messiness of your initial creations, knowing that excellence is born from the sisters of patience and iteration.
The second you start condemning young and fragile ideas, you’re toast.
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