Lost in creation

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““But,” I said, “when I see my work I take for granted what other people value in it. I see only its ineptitude, inorganic flaws, and crudities. I am not pleased or satisfied.” “No artist is pleased.” “But then there is no satisfaction?” “No satisfaction whatever at any time,” she cried out passionately. “There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”” Martha Graham on the Life-Force of Creativity and the Divine Dissatisfaction of Being an Artist

https://www.brainpickings.org/2015/10/02/martha-graham-creativity-divine-dissatisfaction/

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“Somehow I’ve been able to make a living doing what I love best for 50 years without ever having to get a real job. “But how can you be so disciplined?” friends always ask when I tell them my job is to get up every day at 6 A.M. Monday to Friday and think up insane stuff. Easy! If I didn’t work this hard for myself, I’d have to go work for somebody else.” John Waters’s Spectacular RISD Commencement Address on Creative Rebellion and the Artist’s Task to Cause Constructive Chaos

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/06/23/john-waters-risd-commencement-transcript/

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“We shouldn’t wait for our passions to land in our lap. We should make sure that we are incrementally getting closer to them.” Scott Belsky on finding the sweet spot.

https://www.33voices.com/posts/cultivating-the-courage-to-take-the-buzzer-shot

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“Should is how other people want us to live our lives… Choosing Must is the greatest thing we can do with our lives.” Elle Luna The Crossroads of Should and Must: An Intelligent Illustrated Field Guide to Finding Your Bliss

http://www.brainpickings.org/2015/05/05/the-crossroads-of-should-and-must-elle-luna/

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“Inspiration is for amateurs — the rest of us just show up and get to work. And the belief that things will grow out of the activity itself and that you will — through work — bump into other possibilities and kick open other doors that you would never have dreamt of if you were just sitting around looking for a great ‘art idea.’ And the belief that process, in a sense, is liberating and that you don’t have to reinvent the wheel every day. Today, you know what you’ll do, you could be doing what you were doing yesterday, and tomorrow you are gonna do what you did today, and at least for a certain period of time you can just work. If you hang in there, you will get somewhere.” Chuck Close

http://dedpxl.com/inspiration-interpretation/

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“You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.” -Anaïs Nin 25 Profound Quotes That Will Make You Question Everything

http://www.creativitypost.com/arts/25_profound_quotes_that_will_make_you_question_everything

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Pick one of these. Trust me. It'll help. Then get back to work.

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“The single most important piece of advice I can give is: Remember that good enough is almost always good enough. If people go through life looking for good enough results, the choice problem will take care of itself. Go through your day getting a good enough cup of coffee and a good enough toasted bagel and so on and so on and life will look much sunnier.” Barry Schwartz

How To Find Happiness In Today’s Hectic World http://www.bakadesuyo.com/2015/02/how-to-find-happiness/

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“Trust me, you do not want to piss off a collective group of people that don’t follow the same logic that you do.” An Open Letter to the Artist Support System

http://jennamartinphotoblog.com/2015/02/18/an-open-letter-to-the-artist-support-system/

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Valentine's Day is useless

Valentine's Day is for the procrastinators of love. A little love each day keeps the doctor away.

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Never, ever break the #ruleofthirds !

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If you're of a certain age, then, you can get ready to tell your grandchildren about the days when people carried 160GB of music in their pocket instead of streaming it all from the cloud. Oh, and get ready to explain what a spinning hard drive is, too. http://www.engadget.com/2014/09/09/apple-ipod-classic-discontinued/

I guess I must be "of a certain age" :-(

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La #teleportation c'était mieux avant. #lostart

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"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people!" - Randy Pausch

http://joel.is/why-you-should-continue-working-on-your-bad-idea/

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Isn't it a great summer for photographers ? #swanlake #stormyweather

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#noplacelikehome #raindrops

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When you're creating, how do you know you're heading the right direction ? #workinprogress #doubts #highexpectations