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Couldn't paint what I'm painting now, if I didn't paint what came before it first --- even if what came before was utter drivel. I will agree with this: Always
by diiq 17y ago
Couldn't paint what I'm painting now, if I didn't paint what came before it first --- even if what came before was utter drivel.
I will agree with this: Always work when you're inspired. Don't let it slip past you.
But: Always work when you're uninspired. The work is the source of the inspiration --- not contemplating the opening lotus blossom.
- messel 17y agoI find living is inspirational. Going for a walk, chatting online, etc.
- diiq 17y agoAbsoutely. No one can work all the time. If I go for a walk after a few hours in the studio, I see the world as a source to draw from, a fountain of ideas. The world inspires because the work is an inspiration-tinted lens. Going for a walk after a few hours of chatting online after a few hours of cleaning the bathroom after a few days of not working --- then I rarely find myself inspired; what feels like inspiration is mundane once realized, like the violent discovery that milk's gone sour. The only benefit gained is that I'm working again.