The practice
The art of arting.
The practice
The art of arting.
The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for your whole life. And the most important thing is—it must be something you cannot possibly do.
– Henry Moore (sculptor)
In response to the poet Donald Hall, who asked him what the secret to life is.
How “Steal Like An Artist” by Austin Kleon can help your creative practice.
To state this again. There are a set of things that excite you artistically, and there are a set of things that the public enjoys, and you are looking for something in the intersection of those two sets. You can make work that is commercially successful while still staying true to your artistic interests.
– fnnch

via vitus on Are.na
I will not be "famous," "great." I will go on adventuring, changing, opening my mind and my eyes, refusing to be stamped and stereotyped. The thing is to free one's self: to let it find its dimensions, not be impeded.
– Virginia Woolf, A Writer's Diary
You can’t fix a problem using tools provided by the problem.
Exercises on product design