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Peele: One of the breakthrough moments for me was realizing that, you know, you can take all the classes you want and learn and practice and get all the advice from other people, but it’s really like learning an instrument that has never existed until you were born. No one can tell you how to play that instrument. There’s a part of that journey
... See moreJudd Apatow • Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life and Comedy
The work that we create is like a baby - an entity that sparks and develops solely inside ourselves - that is a part of us - until it eventually exits our mind and body as its own separate thing, which others can engage with apart from us. We are not our work, but our work was once a part of us, in a sense, even when it sits and stands firmly on
... See moreDon’t identify too strongly with your work. Stay fluid behind those black-and-white words. They are not you. They were a great moment going through you. A moment you were awake enough to write down and capture.
Natalie Goldberg • Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
When Elizabeth King said, “Process saves us from the poverty of our intentions,” she was talking about the fish. You might seek a shortcut, a hustle, a way to somehow cajole that fish onto the hook. But if it distracts you from the process, your art will suffer. Better to set aside judging yourself until after you’ve committed to the practice and
... See moreSeth Godin • The Practice
Art requires access to the imagination, a notoriously difficult place to visit. The imagination fuels an idea. The artist acts urgently, often impulsively, on that idea but brings conscious rigor to the evaluation of what the imagination has spewed. Ultimately, experience, intellect, insight, and drive enable them to shape the work and then to edit
... See moreAdam Moss • The Work of Art: How Something Comes from Nothing
The artist prays by creating.
— Flannery O’Connor’s “The Enduring Chill”
What happens to a drawing when we dislike it?
I will demonstrate. I do not like this drawing.
Ah! Yet it survives your dislike! Astonishing!
Lynda Barry, Syllabus
