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Painter and visual artist Chuck Close on inspiration:
"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work.
All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case."
Source: Interview (March 2007)
After 11+ years doing this silly blog, I have accumulated gobs of folders and mongo-gobs of photos. I have one folder labelled "See" which has some special photos, eye candy, the kind you want to study and enjoy. I thought I might share a few with you ?
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2 comments:
Let's hope the "Change" will become reality soon.
Chuck Close gives such a wise advise. Of course it's not (always) easy to follow and I think we have to figure it out ourselves again and again.
Loved this blog, Jacki! Thanks!
Thanks, Elenor. I believe in change and also the pendulum effect, but I'm doubting if I'll live to see it?
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