The Creative Act p. 50
The objective is not to learn to mimic greatness, but to calibrate our internal meter for greatness. So we can better make the thousands of choices that might ultimately lead to our own great work.
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The Creative Act p. 50
Because there's an endless amount of data available to us and we have a limited bandwidth to conserve, we might consider carefully curating the quality of what we allow in.
The Creative Act p. 50
If you make the choice of reading classic literature every day for a year, rather than reading the news, by the end of that time period you'll have a more honed sensitivity for recognizing greatness from the books than from the media.
The Creative Act p. 49
The Creative Act p. 47
Living life as an artist is a practice. You are either engaging in the practice or you're not. It makes no sense to say you're not good at it. We tend to think of the artist's work as the output. The real work of the artist is a way of being in the world.
The Creative Act p. 45
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