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Patrick O'Shaughnessy • Twitter

All our efforts to make sense of ourselves and our art are a smoke screen, an obfuscation. They don’t illuminate what is. They mislead us. We have no way of knowing what is insignificant and what is essential, or what our contributions mean. We tell ourselves varying stories of who we are and how the work gets made. But none of them matter. All tha

Rick Rubin • The Creative Act: A Way of Being

Taste for Makers

Paul Graham paulgraham.com

two six-packs of Pabst Blue Ribbon every night.

Jerry Colonna • Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up

And if you are just starting out or if you are still in this phase, you gotta know its normal and the most important thing you can do is do a lot of work. Do a huge volume of work. Put yourself on a deadline so that every week or every month you know you're going to finish one story. It is only by going through a volume of work that you're going to... See more

Ira Glass • THE GAP by Ira Glass

To me, the key to keeping taste is to be true to yourself. While I recognize that that sentiment would be more appropriate on a wine mom’s wall hanging, it is surprisingly hard. When no one cares about you and you make objects for the simple joy of creation, you’re under no pressure to conform your taste to anyone. When your audience grows—when art... See more

Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste

The producer is the difference between a good idea and an actual success, but the true art of the producer is to commercialize the idea while also not stunting its growth by compromising too early.

Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses

The best critic possible on the book The Gift .--At the 45th International Design Conference in Aspen in 1995, Milton Glaser began a speech by arguing that the axiom “good design is good business” may no longer be useful to designers in explaining the value of their creativity to clients. He returned to the idea of “good design” in his conclusion: ... See more

Rob Giampietro • Lined & Unlined · Form-giving

Turning something from an idea into a reality can make it seem smaller. It changes from unearthly to earthly. The imagination has no limits. The physical world does. The work exists in both.