December 2009
17 posts
It's hard to change a little. It's much easier to...
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When you try to change a little, your old mindset still has its old values and attachments, and you inevitably slide back into your old groove. But when you change enough to create a new mindset, you can free yourself from your old way of looking at things and create a new groove.
Mmh, not sure I needed this. Rings true though.
“There’s an audience for everything … if you say I want to express...”
– Making art in the now world — latimes.com
“What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we...”
– Julia Cameron, the great artist-unblocking expert! (via i-peach-feng-shui)
I have just bought ‘the artists way’ and will ‘do it’ some time this year. I’ve read parts of it and read back thoughts/ doubts I had that block(ed) me, some of which I akready mentioned on...
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the...”
– John Green, Paper Towns. (submitted by: Alanna)(via quote-book)(via lavenderdays)
I LOVE this quote, and I love this book.
BIG REMINDER that NOW is really all that matters and its a great time to go and do! (via i-peach-feng-shui) OMG i would have been ancient/ dead. But I’m not/ I’m...
“An idea is a point of departure and no more. As soon as you elaborate it, it...”
– Picasso (via tiffanyhoran)
I have a tendency to leave it at the Idea, so this is relevant, and timely.
“Remember also that nobody else will see your fears and weaknesses. You see...”
– Rory Marinich: Do It Already (via toldorknown)
Mhgrmpfhhgf OK OKOK.
#8 When I've filled this sketchbook I'll start
Of course I have an idea of what sort of work I would make as an artist. I have ideas and I have begun to write them down, more not to forget them then to make them works in their own right.
And I will be pretty excited writing down those ideas. And I will think I cannot wait to start to make these. And I will promise myself to do that. Just after filling this sketchbook completely. And I will...
“I learned that sitting in the chair and forcing yourself to write long past the...”
– Janice Erlbaum: Nanowhatnow? (via jenbee)
“Go confidently
In the direction of your Dreams.
Live the life
you’ve...”
– ~ Henry David Thoreau ( he must have known how many options/temptations/awesomeness-es I’m faced with before Christmas….) (via i-peach-feng-shui)
“Within the problem lies the solution.”
– Milton Katselas (wow, truest words ever spoken) (via i-peach-feng-shui)
“When you start working everybody is in your studio—the past, your friends,...”
– John Cage, cited by Philip Guston, ‘The Philadelpia Panel’
(via the-space-in-between) (via jenbee) get out already.
#7 I'm already too old.
I will never be able to start now, I’m too old. What can I accomplish in my remaining time?
There is a great piece in Bruce Mau’s Life style ‘A Woman of a certain age’ (page 460) in which he describes his 15 year theory, that every 15 years there is a new career window, the opportunity to change careers, find your voice, change directions.
‘…all you’ve done...
“Gehry said that he had done the initial drawing on his iPhone, which an...”
– porcupineschool: Frank Gehry designs her hat, Damien Hirst paints her piano, now Lady Gaga just needs Jeff Koons to make her some pool toys.
I am amazed at Gehry’s willingness to just do this. I guess it’s his thing now, he is lead by his intuition, by ephemeral ideas and hints of...
“The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.”
– Julia Cameron (via i-peach-feng-shui) Ooh I can relate to this one.
“I have learned, as a rule of thumb, never to ask whether you can do something....”
– Julia Cameron (via i-peach-feng-shui)