Sublime

Glenn Gould, tant de fois recopiée dans tant de carnets successifs : « La visée de l’art n’est pas la décharge momentanée d’une sécrétion d’adrénaline mais la construction patiente, sur la durée d’une vie entière, d’un état de quiétude et d’émerveillement. »

McManus, though, adds a third perspective: “Play.” McManus and his colleagues at Autodesk believe, as do we, that humans are driven to create, explore, communicate, and learn through the acts of making and play. When we putter around making things without a clear and direct utilitarian need, often we are learning. Jazz, improvisation, analogy,

He said two things that I’ve always remembered. First, that if you get so good at drawing with your right hand that you can even make a beautiful sketch with your eyes closed, you should immediately change to your left hand to avoid repeating yourself. And second, don’t flatter yourself that you have any ideas. If you’re a good artist, Hegedušić

little bets, allowed him to explore new styles and forms with audiences. His surviving manuscripts are riddled with pockmarks, corrections, changes, and cross-outs, some so deep that he would even puncture the manuscript paper with his quill. Over time, Beethoven arrived at a highly distinct style, helping to usher in a new period of classical

Like the LEGO blocks you may have played with as a kid, they can be rapidly searched, retrieved, moved around, assembled, and reassembled into new forms without requiring you to invent anything from scratch. You need to put in the effort to create a note only once, and then you can just mix and match and try out different combinations until

three themes seem to spiral out, educating me as they emerged. First, again, that the flow is always a function of fragments, fluid sequences are made of small steps. Separate, discrete actions learned by effort and then put together give not just the illusion of unity but the fact of mastery.

legend Clark Terry, who summed up the art of improvising in jazz into three steps: imitation, assimilation, and innovation.