#artist

Be passionate about what you write, believe in your ability to convey timeless ideas, and let no one tell you what what you're capable of. ↗

— Christina Westover

#books #censorship #christina-westover #freedom-of-the-press #passion

The job is what you do when you are told what to do. The job is showing up at the factory, following instructions, meeting spec, and being managed. Someone can always do your job a little better or faster or cheaper than you can. The job might be difficult, it might require skill, but it's a job. Your art is what you do when no one can tell you exactly how to do it. Your art is the act of taking personal responsibility, challenging the status quo, and changing people. I call the process of doing your art 'the work.' It's possible to have a job and do the work, too. In fact, that's how you become a linchpin. The job is not the work. ↗

— Seth Godin

#artists #commitment #conformity #dedication #job

Dogmatism of all kinds--scientific, economic, moral, as well as political--are threatened by the creative freedom of the artist. This is necessarily and inevitably so. We cannot escape our anxiety over the fact that the artists together with creative persons of all sorts, are the possible destroyer of our nicely ordered systems. (p. 76) ↗

— Rollo May

#dogmatism #fundamentalism #courage

There are many statues of men slaying lions, but if only the lions were sculptors there might be quite a different set of statues. ↗

— Aesop

#biases #men

La nuit appartient aux audacieux, aux fous et aux artistes, qui sont souvent les mêmes. ↗

— Anne Fortier

#inspirational

About writing:The trick is to make sure you love what you've produced--to Believe..in order to convince. ↗

— Christina Westover

#christina-westover #creative-visualization #inspiration #precipice #writing

What are we artists for? We are for showing you what you've wandered for to find the home of your spirit... ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#inspiration #life #spirit #home

When I need some striking inspiration about deep depression for my new painting, I just need to go to check my bank account... ↗

— Hiroko Sakai

#bank-account #depression #funny #humorous #inspiration

Who am I? I am who I say I am and tomorrow someone else entirely. You are too nostalgic, you want memory to secure you, console you. The past is a bore. What matters is only oneself and what one creates from what one has learned. Imagination uses what it needs and discards the rest— where you want to erect a museum. Don't hoard the past, Astrid. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge. ↗

— Janet Fitch

#past #present #white-oleander #imagination

I wonder if only artists can feel peace like this—such a gentle, inconspicuous peace that an ordinary person might not even notice. ↗

— Tessa Emily Hall

#inspirational-quotes #peace #inspirational