Sylvie
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Sylvie
part of the point of sharing art is to give people something that cannot properly be valued.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
Time spent thinking about art is time spent wondering what it really feels like to be you.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
Yet artists have never lost their power to create transcendent things. Every society’s art that we can still access vibrates intensely through the human experience. We are still creating things that can fundamentally alter people’s lives, shake the core of their understanding, rewrite their entire personhood.
David Berry • How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists
It’s tempting to think of art as outside of our practical needs: art does not hold up walls or keep us warm; it derives its value from our perceptions of it. It exists to prove we are capable of appreciating things beyond their practicality. We can see again how it is directly opposed to the inherent efficiency of money: if art were so crass as to
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my question is why you think productivity and artistic practise should be viewed as anything other than the conflicting, oxymoronic ideals they are. the purpose of writing or creating isn’t to tout a finished product; the value of what we do isn’t in having a sellable thing to make us a profit. it is to fuel our curiosity and reflect who we are in... See more
the one about ai.
If so, here is what I remind myself when I’m depressed about bestselling dreck or algorithmic slop or declining literacy of the country or any of that noise: that crap has jack shit to do with you or your art.
It has nothing to do with you! Nothing. It is completely irrelevant to what you are trying to do. It doesn’t matter. Don’t waste your time... See more
It has nothing to do with you! Nothing. It is completely irrelevant to what you are trying to do. It doesn’t matter. Don’t waste your time... See more
Counter Craft • Why You Should Still Build Your Raft of Art in the Sea of Slop
The process of making art is the process of becoming a person with agency, with independent thought, a producer of meaning rather than a consumer of meanings that may be at odds with your soul, your destiny, your humanity, so there’s another kind of success in becoming conscious that matters and that is up to you and nobody else and within your... See more
Rebecca Solnit • How to Be a Writer: 10 Tips From Rebecca Solnit
Creativity is a part of existence - it is innate. You make as much as you think. To fathom you aren’t someone capable of creation or that it isn’t something that you should care about is a battle with your subconscious. It isn’t performative or just something you do, but is a way of perceiving, feeling and being in which outcomes are just a... See more