“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”- Chuck Close
Huge like! So very true, and yet so easy to forget.
ReplyDeleteVery well said!
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Excellent!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the inspiration ;)
Oh yes! I love this... It reminds me of that book The War of Art.
ReplyDeleteCompletely true. I have accomplished more work this month than I have all last year, just by starting something, anything. I kept waiting for the perfect idea to come and wasted all that time. Ah you live, you learn.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure that is true! Thanks for the reminder!
ReplyDeleteHi. It's been a while since I have visited. That is great advice. And, I love Chuck Close
ReplyDeletethis is so true. so so true. i find myself waiting for a good idea or inspiration and more afraid to begin the process in fear of it being "bad."
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Very well said.
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ReplyDeleteThank you, I really needed to read that.
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Beautiful
ReplyDeleteThank you for your words Leigh! I passed by and this is just what I needed. Sometimes we need someone to remind us of this fact.
ReplyDeleteI have this problem! i spend all day on the computer, looking at wonderfull blogs and searching pintrest, "for insperation" and i never do any work. Tehe, but I NEED to. MUST BLOG! maybe i have problems... Thanks for sharing!
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Yes! He said it exactly right.
ReplyDeletestephanie@metropolitanmama.net
Love this quote. Chuck Close is one of my favorite artist!
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