On inspiration

In my experience, inspiration is not something that finds you, or offers itself to you, nor for that matter is faith. Inspiration and faith are similar in so far as they both ask something of us. They each require real and constant practical application. For me, inspiration comes only when I practice certain things regularly and rigorously. I must ... See more

All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push... See more

— but I do also think there’s something to approaching one’s window shopping from a place of inspiration vs. one of looking for inspiration.

Many more things are liable to please your eye when you’re already in that I-love-everything mindset. Inspiration can affix to your face a pair of rose-colored glasses. One potential downfall could be that if y

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