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"'Artist' has gradually become a form of identity which (as every artist knows) often carries with it as many drawbacks as benefits. Consider that if artist equals self, then when (inevitably) you make flawed art, you are a flawed person, and when (worse yet) you make no art, you are no person at all!"
Re-reading this. It continues to get me where I live.
— Mar 22, 2021 08:14AM
Re-reading this. It continues to get me where I live.
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Ada Hoffmann
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"Moreover, what's important about each new piece is not whether it is better or worse than your previous efforts, but the ways in which it is similar or different. The meaningful comparison between two Bach fugues is not how they rank, but how they work."
— Mar 26, 2021 07:15PM
Ada Hoffmann
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"Most of what we inherit is so clearly correct it goes unseen. It fits the world seamlessly. It is the world. But despite its richness and variability, the well-defined world we inherit doesn't quite fit each one of us, individually... And so you make your place in the world by making part of it-by contributing some new part to the set... Each new piece of your art enlarges our reality. The world is not yet done."
— Mar 26, 2021 04:32PM
