the creator's mind
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
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
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
... See moreEric Hobsbawm (1962)
One thing I would suggest is finding a way to make a lot of things and put them out, just to get a cycle going, without even thinking that it’s for anybody or that it’s going to accomplish anything. But every time you put something out, it makes it that much easier to put something else out. So you’re creating a sense of freedom in making things
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The Popstars that are trying to make music that sounds like what’s popular are already losing. Artists like Rosalía and a Charli XCX prove that if the artistry is unique and connects, Pop will come to you.
Pop Music
Rosalía
Lux
Charli XCX
Brat
Madonna
instagram.comEverything 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
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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
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