December 2010
11 posts
On Why
claytoncubitt:
“The problem (if there was one) was simply a problem with the question. He wants to paint a bird, needs to, and the problem is why. Why paint a bird? Why do anything at all? Not how, because hows are easy, series or sequence, one foot after the other, but existentially why bother, what does it solve? Be the tree, solve for bird. What does that mean? It’s a problem of focus, it’s a...
“Art is the study of desire.”
– Steve Kim
“Don’t want to stop self-identifying your self as an artist? You should probably...”
– From the same article as below. Reject being called an artist – when making art, be a somebody « The ALP Blog. This sounds true; when I put down my desire to ‘finaly be an artist’ more than a year ago, one of the first comments was ‘what does it mean to you, to be an...
Reject being called an artist – when making art,... →
artlistpro:
Being defined as an artist is really an exercise of enduring others’ expectations of what that word means.
“What are you working on? If someone asks you that, are you excited to tell them...”
– Seth Godin (via azspot)
“The brain may take advice, but not the heart, and love, having no geography,...”
– Truman Capote, Other Voices, Other Rooms via oceanofmind. (via tobia)
Bobulate: Confidence for good →
jenbee:
People, both women and men, should be so fiercely passionate about good ideas that self-promotion is a natural extension. Otherwise, why is it worth doing in the first place? It’s when confidence and self-promotion are obfuscated from passion that the claims become flimsy and empty. Confidence can bridge the gap between desire and outcome as long as the integrity for what we believe...
“Has he any reason to envy the young people whom he sees, or wax nostalgic over...”
– Viktor E. Frankl (via steve-kim)
“When I am working on a book or story I write every morning as soon after first...”
– Ernest Hemmingway (via steve-kim)
