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“a clean honesty
about our otherness that feels
not like the moral but the story.”
― The Hurting Kind: Poems
about our otherness that feels
not like the moral but the story.”
― The Hurting Kind: Poems
“Thoughts and habits not conducive to the work: Believing you’re not good enough. Feeling you don’t have the energy it takes. Mistaking adopted rules for absolute truths. Not wanting to do the work (laziness). Not taking the work to its highest expression (settling). Having goals so ambitious that you can’t begin. Thinking you can only do your best work in certain conditions. Requiring specific tools or equipment to do the work. Abandoning a project as soon as it gets difficult. Feeling like you need permission to start or move forward. Letting a perceived need for funding, equipment, or support get in the way. Having too many ideas and not knowing where to start. Never finishing projects. Blaming circumstances or other people for interfering with your process. Romanticizing negative behaviors or addictions. Believing a certain mood or state is necessary to do your best work. Prioritizing other activities and responsibilities over your commitment to making art. Distractibility and procrastination. Impatience. Thinking anything that’s out of your control is in your way.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“All that matters is that you are making something you love, to the best of your ability, here and now.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
“Yet he could not understand why he was so terribly attracted by her thighs, but he was, so much that he felt like taking the nerves of his body and coiling them one by one around them. The appetite of meat eating animals must be just this, coarse, voracious.”
― The Woman in the Dunes
― The Woman in the Dunes
“Similarly, the total output of human creativity, in all its kaleidoscopic breadth, pieces together the fabric forming our culture. The underlying intention of our work is the aspect allowing it to fit neatly into this fabric. Rarely if ever do we know the grand intention, yet if we surrender to the creative impulse, our singular piece of the puzzle takes its proper shape.
Intention is all there is. The work is just a reminder.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Intention is all there is. The work is just a reminder.”
― The Creative Act: A Way of Being
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