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SOME HANDS HAVE BEEN AT IT FOR AWHILE BUT OTHERS ARE SO NEW TO THE GAME THAT NO PARTICULAR STYLE OF DRAWING HAS HAD A CHANCE TO TAKE ROOT
Lynda Barry, Syllabus
"There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is
... See moreLynda Barry, when blocked, writes her first drafts with a paint brush on legal pads.
“As my friends paint that picture, you will be subjectively giving form to what my friends already comprehend. Think of Thelonious Monk. Thelonious Monk did not get those unusual chords as a result of logic or theory. He opened his eyes wide, and scooped those chords out from the darkness of his consciousness. What is important is not creating
... See moreHaruki Murakami • Killing Commendatore: A novel
Here’s Socrates, in Plato’s Phaedrus, on the “noble effect of heaven-sent madness”: The third type of possession and madness is possession by the Muses. When this seizes upon a gentle and virgin soul it rouses it to inspired expression in lyric and other sorts of poetry, and glorifies countless deeds of the heroes of old for the instruction of
... See moreSteven Pressfield • The War of Art
Most artists are so busy simply attempting to produce satisfying work or make a living that they forget that, ultimately, they are making work to communicate their own version of the truth. We make work that mirrors our own deeply held ideas about the world.
Lisa Congdon • Find Your Artistic Voice: The Essential Guide to Working Your Creative Magic
They’re photographs of my mind and they help me make a kind of sense of my development as a person as well as of my development as a writer.