Karisher’s Reviews > Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad > Status Update

7. "Most everybody alive is so obsessed with what's new that they all think about the same things. If you're having trouble finding people to think with, seek out the dead. They have a lot to say and they are excellent listeners."

7. "Art is the highest form of hope". But hope is not about knowing how things will turn out-it is moving forward in the face of uncertainty. It's a way of dealing with uncertainty. To have hope, you must acknowledge that you don't know everything and you don't know what's going to happen. That's the only way to keep going and the only way tokeep making art: to be open to possibility and allow yourself to be changed.

6. "Art is for life, not the other way around."

5. "If you want to change your life, change what you pay attention to. "We give things meaning by paying attention to them," Jessa Crispin writes, "and so moving your attention from one thing to another can absolutely change your future.""

5. "his goal with his art was "to breathe new life into the way we look at the ordinary things around us." This is exactly what an artist does: By paying extra attention to their world, they teach us to pay more attention to ours. The first step toward transforming your life into art is to start paying more attention to it."

4. "Try it: If you're bummed out and hating your work, pick somebody special in your life and make something for them. If you have a big audience, make them something special and give it away. Or maybe even better: Volunteer your time and teach someone else how to make what you make and do what you do. See how it feels. See whether it puts you in a better place."

4. "It's always good to have a hobby where there's no way to monetize it... So follow your dreams, but right up to the point where they become your job, and then run in the other direction."

4. "Everyone who's turned their passion into their breadwinning knows this is dangerous territory. One of the easiest ways to hate something you love is to turn it into your job: taking the thing that keeps you you alive spiritually and turning it into the thing that keeps you alive literally."