Lauren Crichton
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Lauren Crichton
Embrace Muddles // Brian Eno
š You donāt need a perfect planājust the willingness to start.
š Most great work is improvised, not orchestrated.
š Creativity often begins as chaosāthen takes shape as you go.
Clarity comes after creation, not before. You donāt need... See more
contemporary.blueprintinstagram.comMy neighbor, a very prolific artist, on what heās learned about creativity over the last sixty years.
If you work hard, you get into a good circle, where the more you make, the more you can do, and the more ideas comes to you. And conversely, if you're away from it, itās very hard to get... See more
Henrik Karlssonsubstack.com
Octavia Butler did not wait to feel inspired before she began. Long before she became one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, she was keeping notebooks that read less like romantic musings and more like a quiet contract with herself. Inside them: daily writing goals, affirmations written and rewritten, reminders to get up early, to... See more
1granaryinstagram.comItās gloriously inefficient.
Kai Brach
A letter
What we donāt do
Last summer I was asked by the brave CEO of a large manufacturing business to tell their board what VitsÅ does differently.
In answering, differently, I proceeded to tell them what VitsÅ does not do; and why it does not. I will spare you the length of my list but it included āno earning of commission when selling invisible
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Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your sensesāespecially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else. ā Leonardo da Vinci
āThe rich now spend their leisure time doing for pleasure what were everyday jobs of the past. They spend large sums and weeks of their time learning to throw pots, to carve wooden chairs, or to cut and hand stitch leather goods. The work we removed from the ordinary man has become a great luxury and a plaything of the wealthy.ā / Patrick Grant in
... See moreI donāt think anyone owns the meaning of art. Just as no one owns the meaning of life.