Friday, June 7, 2013

don't wait for inspiration

"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anyone who will 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 lightening 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."

~Chuck Close

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