The Creative Act: A Way of Being

by Rick Rubin

It’s helpful to continually challenge your own process. If you had a good result using a specific style, method, or working condition, don’t assume that is the best way.

Discipline is not a lack of freedom, it is a harmonious relationship with time. Managing your schedule and daily habits well is a necessary component to free up the practical and creative capacity to make great art.

Being an artist means to be continually asking, “How can it be better?” whatever it is. It may be your art, and it may be your life.