How does an artist look at the world? First, you figure out what’s worth stealing, then you move on to the next thing.
Don’t worry about unity from piece to piece – what unifies all of your work is the fact that you made it.
But it’s not enough to be good. In order to be found, you have to be findable. I think there’s an easy way of putting your work out there and making it discoverable while you’re focused on getting really good at what you do.
Where do you get your ideas?” The honest artist answers, “I steal them.
In the first act, you get your hero up a tree. The second act, you throw rocks at him. For the third act, you let him down.“- George Abbott.
I’ll often post something I loved making that took me forever and crickets chirp. I’ll post something else I think is sort of lame that took me no effort and it will go viral. If I let those metrics run my personal practice, I don’t think my heart could take it very long.
You and I will be around a lot longer than Twitter, and nothing substitutes face to face.” – Rob Delaney It.
There is no misery in art. All art is about saying yes, and all art is about its own making.” – John Currin.
The number one rule of the Internet: People are lazy. If you don’t include a link, no one can click it. Attribution without a link online borders on useless: 99.9 percent of people are not going to bother Googling someone’s name.
The minute you stop wanting something you get it.” – Andy Warhol Chain-smoking.
To fake a photograph, all you have to do is change the caption. To fake a painting, change the attribution.” – Errol Morris.
The stupidest possible creative act is still a creative act,” writes Clay Shirky in his book Cognitive Surplus. “On the spectrum of creative work, the difference between the mediocre and the good is vast. Mediocrity is, however, still on the spectrum; you can move from mediocre to good in increments. The real gap is between doing nothing and doing something.
If you want to be more effective when sharing yourself and your work, you need to become a better storyteller. You need to know what a good story is and how to tell one.
Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it well and serenely, and with too high a spirit to be cumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson.
A good pitch is set up in three acts: The first act is the past, the second act is the present, and the third act is the future.
Being open and honest about what you like is the best way to connect with people who like those things, too.
You avoid stalling out in your career by never losing momentum.
The good thing about dead or remote masters is that they can’t refuse you as an apprentice.
What we respond to in any work of art is the artist’s struggle against his or her limitations.
You should always share the work of others as if it were your own, treating it with respect and care.