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“I understood the series of stages I was supposed to go through—you go to high school, you go to college, you get a credential, and then you go out and get a good job. I knew it wasn’t gonna work for me. I knew I was gonna be drawing cartoons forever.
Lou Aronica • The Element
Art and science, leisure and work, invention and execution are all parts of the same system.
Amy Whitaker • Art Thinking: How to Carve Out Creative Space in a World of Schedules, Budgets, and Bosses
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So before you build your second brain, build a relationship with your gut. Trust your felt-senses to guide you in discerning what is worth capturing. Get inexplicably emotional when you sit down to create. Feel your gut-feelings. Only then will you be able to create something truly valuable.
Daniel Kazandjian • Before building a second brain, build a connection with your gut.
Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.
Robert Henri • The Art Spirit
Lynda Barry, when blocked, writes her first drafts with a paint brush on legal pads.