Marc

“How do we pick up on a signal that can neither be heard nor be defined? The answer is not to look for it. Nor do we attempt to predict or analyze our way into it. Instead, we create an open space that allows it. A space so free of the normal overpacked condition of our minds that it functions as a vacuum. Drawing down the ideas that the universe is making available.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being

“Never overtly show all men the contempt which they deserve, for one can never know when one may need them.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Compared to the works of the Supreme Creator, all things are small.”
― Ludwig van Beethoven, Beethoven's Letters: with explanatory notes Dr. A.C. Kalischer

“In nature, some seeds lie dormant in anticipation of the season most conducive to their growth. This is true of art as well. There are ideas whose time has not yet come. Or perhaps their time has come, but you are not yet ready to engage with them. Other times, developing a different seed may shed light on a dormant one.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being