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Artists: Art is a collage of yourself that allows other people to see you, themselves, and glean the group-mind.
Jerry Saltzx.compain might be a total asshole, but it can inadvertently show us how much space we have inside. It can even expand that space. And enable us to experience the equivalent quantity of joy or hope or love or contentment at some future point in time.
Matt Haig • The Comfort Book
When making art, we create a mirror in which someone may see their own hidden reflection.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Notes on Practice

1. A refusal to allow your audience to typecast you is wise art strategy. Making it difficult for your audience to pin down you or your work is also resonant for longevity.

2. Our creative work, or the roles we play in it, are not defined by the stereotypes society places... See more
instagram.comIt hurts now, but I’ll love this memory, I thought to myself. And I do.
Donald Miller • A Million Miles in a Thousand Years
The goal of art isn’t to attain perfection. The goal is to share who we are. And how we see the world. Artists allow us to see what we are unable to see, but somehow already know. It may be a view of the world singularly different from our own. Or one so close, it seems miraculous, as if the artist is looking through our own eyes. In either case,
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
This growth causes pain but it is a sacred pain. It would be much more tragic to have cautiously avoided these depths and remained marooned on the shiny surfaces of the banal.