writing

“Why can’t fellows be allowed to do what they like when they like and as they like instead of other fellows sitting on banks and watching them all the time and making remarks and poetry and things about them? What nonsense it all is?” The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

If your intention is to ‘make art’, then maybe you’ll get a couple of good paintings. You may even get a show or two.

But I think of it this way: I don’t make art. I make things. Framing it like that keeps what I’m doing from becoming precious. And that’s a good thing, because to be precious is to be timid—and that’s bad. Creativity requires attenti

Richard Powers quote about thinking of better ways to word sentences forever after publishing.

It has the problem most debut novels have, it’s trying to answer every question in the whole world.

“Every brush of the wind on Turin’s face whispered his wife’s name. But all Kyro felt was the cold.”

The Star Shepard - Haring & Connolly

Or, to put it another way, it should feel like work rather than labor. This criterion was proposed by art critic Dave Hickey, who, after writing about and working among many of the great visual artists of our time, said in an interview, of creative work, “I think that if you don’t like it and it’s not easy, you shouldn’t be doing it … I mean it’s&n