Nietzsche stressed this point. As he observed in his 1878 book Human, All Too Human:
Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the so-called inspiration … shining down from heavens as a ray of grace. In reality, the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects…. All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.
How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com (via slantback)
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It’s More Art Monday! The Museum is closed, but our online galleries are open. Here, a few of our paintings from Marcel Duchamp…
And now, a look at Marcel Duchamp’s other side! Thanks for sharing, Philadelphia Museum of Art!
Kind of inspirational to see how he started. Not with declaring urinals art that’s for sure. I love seeing the early art of very good and break-through artists.
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Henry Miller’s Eleven Commandments
Note to self. Productivity is hard to come by lately.
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Learning Your Groove
Not everything you create will start perfectly, or look like you want it to… but if you stick with it long enough, it will!!! You can not learn your groove until you start and truly engage in the creative process. You can’t do that until you get past the weird, awkward, hit or miss early stages of growth. Avoid the temptation to quit… or to not start!… because its not perfect. Just keep going. Learn your groove and, when you do, you will be unshakeable.
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omg
do you guys realize how amazing this picture is
Oh my goodness, I most certainly do.
(Source: beautifulandscary)
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If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind
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As an analogy, think of the checkout lines in a supermarket.
LOL. I have no idea…
he had also missed the memo.
….damnit. :(
“Selling artwork in the secondary market is easier than selling it in the primary market in one significant way: generally the work you’re selling is understood to be important (otherwise why would it have sold in the first place?).” — Dammit I feel dirty and guilty already. This is from ‘How to start and run a commercial art gallery’ by Edward Winkelman.
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