Kindle Notes & Highlights
nowhere in the many books I’ve now read about the creative life does anybody talk about the importance of dogs.
Too true
It is not incidental to my success that they were also White.
transgression is the life and soul of art-making and to be creative you must be in touch with the forbidden.
when the plein air painter spies just the right mountain view, or the videographer needs a certain light, or the graffiti artist finds a virgin wall, nothing short of razor wire will stop them.
Patience, it turns out, can be learned, and over a long period of time I have learned it.
try harder, think more, write better.
your letters should reflect the steep bell curve of sublimity and mundanity that is your life.
“grawlix.”
twenty-seven consecutive orgasms,
An artistic friend—a true friend, not just someone who might give you a leg up when they make it to associate director at a gallery—can identify when that despair reaches the point where it is not merely an excuse for an entertaining anecdote, but real despair.
we are faced with Insurmountable Opportunities:
what artists actually do: They live their lives. Their everyday, boring, mundane, tedium-filled, sandal-repairing lives.
We work soul-sucking jobs to buy us the relief of a few hours of creativity,
This really hits home for me
Write a letter. Organize. Make lists.
But knowing what I have to do, every hour of every day and every week of every month, is what allows me to schedule, yes, schedule, creativity.
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness.”
In case it isn’t obvious, git ’er done.
knowing that my immediate family did something when so many others here didn’t is important to me.
If, as I believe, art holds universal truths, then ideally it should be able to illuminate and give access to our collective human experience, reaching across gulfs of difference, racial and historical.
You youngsters have inherited from my wasteful, careless generation a toxic world on fire, and unless you take action, you will lose your air, your water, your land, your democracies.
