A cup of motivation

Good Morning!

I found this really great quote on a blog I follow, Heart Go Boom-Boom (which is also awesome!)

“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.

I read this quote over the weekend and again this morning. I've been guilty myself of saying that I just don't feel inspired. B even if it's just a doodle or a silly story, my goal is to do something creative daily. To atleast try.

Get to work!



Comments

  1. hey! i've been following yana for a long time now too! so we both love the same blogs AND (from what i can tell) we both live in GA! awesome!

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