Annalee
@swagmaster88
Annalee
Many of us spend our lives pursuing private acceptance through external success. But no matter the award or honor, our inner doubts will remain. True acceptance comes from inside us. It takes asking ourselves challenging questions like: What do I want from my work? What’s most important about it to me ? How would I create my work differently if I p... See more
Yancey Strickler • What if You Gave Yourself the Gift of Inner Acceptance?
Success is harder to come by when your life depends on it. Art is an unstable
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
what does this mean
Fear of criticism. Attachment to a commercial result. Competing with past work. Time and resource constraints. The aspiration of wanting to change the world. And any story beyond “I want to make the best thing I can make, whatever it is” are all undermining forces in the quest for greatness.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
can you be great when thinking about how other people perceive your work? Is it a truly blind thing? is it even possible to become excellent in something?
The goal of art isn’t to attain perfection. The goal is to share who we are. And how we see the world. Artists allow us to see what we are unable to see, but somehow already know. It may be a view of the world singularly different from our own. Or one so close, it seems miraculous, as if the artist is looking through our own eyes. In either case, t
... See moreRick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Jeremy Scott by katie Grand and Norbert Schoerner (1998)
instagram.comPut all your friends in [your art], everybody you loved, so one day they will find you and know that you were all here together. -Camille Billops to bell hooks