#creative act

[bluewillowmoon]

“The more there is evil in the world, the more we have reasons to create beauty. It is doubtless harder, but it is also more necessary.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky, from “Portrait of a Filmmaker as a Monk-Poet,” an interview with Laurence Cossé, Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews (University Press of Mississippi, 2006)

[bakaity-poetry]

"The act of resistance has two faces. It is human and it is also the act of art. Only the act of resistance resists death, either as a work of art or as human struggle."

~ Gilles Deleuze, What is the Creative Act?

[a2r1n0i5e]

AGAINST THE RUIN OF THE WORLD, THERE IS ONLY ONE DEFENSE: THE CREATIVE ACT.

Kenneth Rexroth - found in Paul Auster: 4 3 2 1

[opheira]

Art is expensive because you’re selling the frequency of freedom and freedom is magnanimous. It takes time, sometimes twenty-four years, sometimes fifty, sometimes never. You will be glad for the time you took; gathering the bones, marrying the voices in your head.

O.E. Roux, from Instructions for Living [a Creative Life], featured on The Intentional Muse

[bluewillowmoon]

“When do you sense you’re finished?

How do you know you’ve begun?”

— Lena Moses-Schmitt, from “Opening Questions for God or the Artist,” True Mistakes (University of Arkansas Press, 2025)

[sfalyse]

BEFORE I FORGET: THIS IS THE WORK

I am my own concept.

Not because I’m special, but because I’m the only material I have total access to.

I am the canvas, the process, the aesthetic, the failure, the refinement.

I don’t need to wait until I’m beautiful to begin.

I begin to become.

I’m not performing confidence.

I’m collecting evidence.

My taste is real.

My eye is real.

My execution is catching up.

No more waiting to get “good.”

I will document the gap between who I am and who I see —

and build the bridge by living it.

This isn’t about looking better.

This is about becoming legible to myself.

[liketrees-mn]

I made these posters inspired by Rick Rubin's book The Creative Act: A Way of Being.

[relativeimperfection]

https://www.instagram.com/reel/CmEuvnTDFM9/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=