“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll 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 lightning 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. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens.
But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive.
You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.”
― Chuck Close
Thank you so much. I shared this with my daughter today. We both love this. You share the most inspiring quotes!
Thank you! I need to put it into practice today 😉
The concept applies to a lot more than just art. It’s the root of why we procrastinate. Good to remember!
So true! Sometimes I am looking for perfection when I write – not going to happen, just write! 🙂
That is sweet! very inspirational.
so sweet. I loved this post
Very true and I like the picture, it’s pretty cool.
That’s good advice. Sometimes if I just get started, things have a way of coming to me.
Great post and so true. When you do then it just comes.
Definitely good advice! (And really love the picture)
I love this. It’s 100% true. When I’m having any kind of slump, creative or work, I just grab something and get started. Soon I’ve got all kinds of ideas and motivation! Thank you for sharing this 🙂
Great advice.
Thanks for the inspiration.
Great post!
so true I can’t tell you how many times ideas come almost at the end of a project makes me want to start over
This is great advice and so true. I use the same ideas when trying to come up with inspiration for my blog and life too.
Thank you so much for the inspiration!
love this!