Creativity, uninhibited.
Try to experience everything as if for the first time. If you grew up in a landlocked town that you never left, the first time you traveled and saw the ocean would likely be a dramatic, awe-inspiring experience. If you spent your whole life living near the ocean, your experience of it would almost certainly be less dramatic.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
It’s impossible to imitate another artist’s point of view. We can only swim in the same waters. So feel free to copy the works that inspire you on the road to finding your own voice. It’s a time-tested tradition.
Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being
When you love the spotlight more than the music, reconsider your path.
Unmistakable Creative • 46 Reflections on a Life Half Over
Perfectionism has nothing to do with getting it right. It has nothing to do with fixing things. It has nothing to do with standards. Perfectionism is a refusal to let yourself move ahead. It is a loop—an obsessive, debilitating closed system that causes you to get stuck in the details of what you are writing or painting or making and to lose sight
... See moreHe who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
– Jean-Luc Godard
