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Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being: The Sunday Times bestseller
Distilling a work to get it as close to its essence as possible is a useful and informative practice. Notice how many pieces you can remove before the work you’re making ceases to be the work you’re making.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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Alex Magee • 6 cards
One thing I would suggest is finding a way to make a lot of things and put them out, just to get a cycle going, without even thinking that it’s for anybody or that it’s going to accomplish anything. But every time you put something out, it makes it that much easier to put something else out. So you’re creating a sense of freedom in making things
... See moreEric Skelton • Creativity, According to Rick Rubin
The artist actively works to experience life slowly, and then to re-experience the same thing anew. To read slowly, and to read and read again.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Being an artist means to be continually asking, “How can it be better?” whatever it is. It may be your art, and it may be your life.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Less is generally more.