Reminders for myself
by Lucas Testro · updated 2mo ago
Reminders for myself
by Lucas Testro · updated 2mo ago
By being willing to be a bad artist, you have a chance to BE an artist, and perhaps, over time, a very good one.
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Say no to bench-setting cynicism.
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“Your day’s work might turn out to have been a mess. So what? Vonnegut said, ‘When I write, I feel like an armless legless man with a crayon in his mouth’. So go ahead and make big scrawls and mistakes. Use up lots of paper. Perfectionism is a mean, frozen form of idealism, while messes are the artist’s true friend. What people somehow (inadvertent
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Leap, and the net will appear.
- The Artists Way
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If god doesn’t work for you, “blend in the influence of someone who is ever so slightly more amused by you, someone less anal. David Byrne is good, for instance. Gracie Allen is good. Mr Rogers will work.”
- Bird by Bird
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Nobody sees a flower - really - it is so small it takes time - we haven’t time - and to see takes time, like to have a friend takes time.
- Georgia O’Keefe
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Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
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Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse.
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Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation, while writing needs to breathe and move.
- Bird By Bird
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"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It’s self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can’t try to do things. You simply must do things."
- Ray Bradbury
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