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“Learning how to endure your disappointment and frustration is part of the job o fa creative person...Frustration is not an interruption of your process; frustration is the process.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“...emotions fly humans toward art”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina

“If you’re alive, you’re a creative person. You and I and everyone you know are descended from tens of thousands of years of makers. Decorators, tinkerers, storytellers, dancers, explorers, fiddlers, drummers, builders, growers, problem-solvers, and embellishers—these are our common ancestors. The guardians of high culture will try to convince you that the arts belong only to a chosen few, but they are wrong and they are also annoying. We are all the chosen few. We are all makers by design. Even if you grew up watching cartoons in a sugar stupor from dawn to dusk, creativity still lurks within you. Your creativity is way older than you are, way older than any of us. Your very body and your very being are perfectly designed to live in collaboration with inspiration, and inspiration is still trying to find you—the same way it hunted down your ancestors.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

“There are melodies that speak as eloquently as words, that flow logically and inevitably from a single, pure emotion.”
― Rachel Hartman, Seraphina