> The concept that artist should come up with new ideas and create something new is narrow. I think it can even be stifling. > The ceaseless, senseless demand

> The concept that artist should come up with new ideas and create something new is narrow. I think it can even be stifling. > The ceaseless, senseless demand for original scholarship in a number of fields, where only erudition is now possible, has led either to sheer irrelevancy, the famous knowing of more and more about less and less, or to the development of a pseudo-scholarship which actually destroys its object. -- Hannah Arendt I guess it's different for different people, but I find myself agreeing with these two things I came across recently: Stephen King: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8TkQvdJVbc&t=7m05s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8TkQvdJVbc&t=7m05s Chad VanGaalen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4z2wSMp81Y&t=9m40s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4z2wSMp81Y&t=9m40s Like, just do it... pursue what you find interesting, follow your inner voice. If you want to do something that's been done, but you haven't done it, do it! Maybe it will lead you to something original even, and if not, so what. That's not advice, but it does work for me, so if anyone feels like it works for them, I would "advise" them to not be put off by people telling them they're wrong with some kind of formula.