the creator's mind

All she had done was record a story—or, as she had put it, things she had actually witnessed—that she possessed inside her, and it just so happened that she had used words to do it. She might just as well have used something other than words, but she had not come across a more appropiate medium. (...) And yet, the sentences and paragraphs that

The real problem was that the artist cut off from a recognizable function, patron or public and left to cast his soul as a commodity upon a blind market, to be bought or not; or to work within a system of patronage which would generally have been economically untenable even if the French Revolution had not established its human indignity. The

No importa lo famosos que lleguen a ser; los artistas verdaderamente avanzados de hoy no solo buscan fans o consumidores pasivos de su trabajo: también buscan colaboradores y co-conspiradores potenciales. Estos artistas reconocen que el buen trabajo no se crea en el vacío, y que la experiencia artística no siempre es una calle de dos sentidos,

El problema de acumular para uno mismo es que terminas viviendo de tus reservas. Al final, te quedas seco. Si das todo lo que tienes, te quedas sin nada, pero eso mismo te fuerza a observar, a estar atento, a reponer... De algún modo, cuanto más das, más obtienes a cambio.

—Paul Arden

Everything usually for me it's pretty much intuitive. I don't rationalize it too much, I try to nurture myself with whatever I feel like I need to explain (…) if you nurture yourself the right way, you're gonna be able to be the vessel and explain it. And so later I start rationalizing it when I see what I’m doing. I don't think I”m thinking what

I like to write about things I don't know
To completely immerse myself in new worlds

-The Living and the Rest, José Eduardo Agualusa