#pro

I could write about how I feel when I sing, write and create something from heartbreak, sorrow, sadness or just simply nothingness. How nothingness can become the most beautiful, unexplainable feeling that makes you forget about gravity for an hour. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#beautiful-chaos #creative-process #creativity #heartbreak #inspiration

Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#comics #creativity #human-activity #instincts #reproduction

practice makes better ↗

— Brian Lies

#drawing #improving #practice #art

But why didn't you just ask me?" I set down my fork and glare at her. "Because you were sleeping," She says, taking a sip if Chardonnay. "I was taking a nap, Mom. It wasn't intended to be some kind of Disney fairy-tale hundred-year snooze. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#art #geeks #noel #prom #queen

The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can’t, you’re dead ↗

— Warren Adler

#writing-life #writing-process #art

The art of being wise is the art of knowing that solutions don’t come from individuals but rather experiences. ↗

— Shannon L. Alder

#experiences #growth #problems #solutions #art

The artist works by locating the world in himself ↗

— Gertrude Stein

#process #writing #art

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy. ↗

— Max McKeown

#improvement #inertia #leadership #strategy #age

A good problem is something you don't know how to solve. That's what makes it a good puzzle and a good opportunity. ↗

— Paul Lockhart

#problems #art

A career must be husbanded. Care must be taken. Everyday must bring some small bit of progress. How would an artist with any self-worth act? Act that way. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#profession #art