A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created Quotes

“The magic rarely happens within our comfort zone, but outside it, on the ragged, scary edge, where we have to fight like hell to keep from drowning in the unknown.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“Courage is not an absence of fear, but an act of the will to move forward in the presence of fear. Fear whispers, “You might…” Courage rebuffs it with, “Sure, but….” To seek a fearless life is not the same as seeking a life of courage. If we’re talking about story, which is about nothing if not life, no one gives a damn about fearlessness. Very few great stories move forward with a fearless hero. Why would they?”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“Ideas rarely come out whole. They change as they get brought to life. New constraints appear, new directions suggest themselves, and new influences come to bear.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“The real failure is to rob this world of the contribution only you can make, and to fail to make work that truly gives you that 'this is what I was created to do' feeling that has no equal.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“It is the daily task of the creative to be curious and collect dots. The most creative people I know fill their brains, their idea factories, with as much raw material as they can. They have voracious appetites.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“Worrying we might fail leads to fear and paralysis; it leads to making “safe” decisions instead of the ones demanded by our art, our longings. Knowing failure is part of our process, and leads to new ideas, stronger work, and more honest questions, liberates us to peer, a little less frightened, into the unknown. I”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“I had traded against my future for the shiny toys of the present,”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“the appetites of our culture have outgrown what we’re able to swallow, yet alone afford.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“For millennia our suffering has been the forge in which great art has been made and great lives have been lived.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“there’s a fine line between a constraint and an excuse; though often the only difference between them is perspective, and how we act on them.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“To do what we should in art is bondage. To tell others, with our art, what they should think or feel or do, is propaganda.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy: When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“I dream big dreams every day; it's up to the universe to keep up.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created

“Arrogance and a teachable spirit are mutually exclusive.”
― David duChemin, A Beautiful Anarchy, When the Life Creative Becomes the Life Created