being a creative human

“For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, but it’s not. But your taste, the thing that got you into the game, is still killer. And your taste is why your work disappoints you. A lot “of people never get past this phase, they quit….If you are just starting out or you are still in t

The work that we create is like a baby - an entity that sparks and develops solely inside ourselves - that is a part of us - until it eventually exits our mind and body as its own separate thing, which others can engage with apart from us. We are not our work, but our work was once a part of us, in a sense, even when it sits and stands firmly on it

(It reminded me that) I am always an artist, even if I lack the tools I desire to use.

- Ava Williams 

“The threat of being misunderstood looms, but the threat of growing stagnant as an artist looms larger.”