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It’s best to wait until a work is complete to discover what it’s saying. Holding your work hostage to a meaning is a limitation. Works that attempt to overly preach a message often don’t connect as intended , while a piece not intended to address societal ill may become an anthem for revolutionary cause. Art is far more powerful than our plans for it.
— Jun 28, 2025 07:26PM
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Ryan
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It is a disservice to a project to weigh our contribution to it… the ego demands personal authorship inflating itself at the expense of art… we all benefit when the best idea is chosen, regardless of whether it’s ours or not
— Jun 28, 2025 07:32PM
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In a prism a single beam of light is broke into a ray of colors. The self too is a prism. Steal events enter and are transformed into a spectrum of feelings thoughts and sensations.
— Jun 28, 2025 07:29PM
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The only practice that matters is the practice you consistently do, not that of any other artist.
— Jun 28, 2025 07:27PM
Ryan
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If you typically write short paragraphs you may decide to experiment with long paragraphs . You may not like it as much but you may learn something. By braking the rules you’ll come to have a greater underfunding of your past choices.
— Jun 28, 2025 07:23PM
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Whatever the situation if a task is challenging to accomplish there’s often a way to design the surroundings to naturally encourage the performance yourself thriving for
— Jun 28, 2025 07:21PM
Ryan
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Art may only exist and the artist may only evolve by completing the work - push through
— Jun 28, 2025 07:19PM
Ryan
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In nature some seeds lie dormant in anticipation of the seasoned conducive to their growth.
— Jun 28, 2025 07:15PM
Ryan
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Wooden considered every aspect of the game where an issue might arise and trained players for each one repeatedly until they became habits
— Apr 12, 2025 02:47PM
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Did the computer win because it knew more than the grandmaster or less
— Apr 12, 2025 02:29PM
Ryan
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Loving life as an artist is a practice...it's like saying "I'm not good at being a monk" you are either living as a monk or you're not.
— Mar 25, 2024 09:47PM
