The Holstee Manifesto. Everyone should read this daily.
11 months ago
The most important thing a creative person can learn professionally is where to draw the red line that separates what you are willing to do, and what you are not.
Art suffers the moment other people start paying for it. The more you need the money, the more people will tell you what to do. The less control you will have. The more bullshit you will have to swallow. The less joy it will bring. Know this and plan accordingly.
Hugh Macleod, from his book, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
I couldn’t agree more!
…here’s to the dreamers, the doers, the visionaries via
thebackplane
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Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here. Make. Good. Art.
Neil Gaiman at his address to the 2012 Graduating Class of the UofA in Philadelphia.
via: 8 Bits of Wisdom on Being a Creator from Neil Gaiman | Brain Pickings
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new lands, but seeing with new eyes.
Marcel Proust
We’re taught to do things the right way. But if you want to discover something that other people haven’t, you need to do things the wrong way.
Sir James Dyson
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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The first follower is actually an underestimated form of leadership in itself. … The first follower is what transforms a lone nut into a leader.
Derek Sivers
