With fingers crossed, hope that I will continue to remember these points and have them guide me for the rest of my creative career.
In the blink of an eye, the first term of school is almost coming to an end. Throughout this time, I've been asked about why I'm back to school despite having a degree. In the humdrum, I sometimes forget my motivation and get confused by the academic demands, until I remind myself of my motivation for pursuing fine arts...
It's timely, I guess, to repeat it now: I've come to study fine arts because I want to create something beautiful.
I don't know what I am going to do with the something after I've created the something beautiful, but I just want to be the person, for once, to create something beautiful. For now.
Wish me luck!
http://ideas.ted.com/fear-is-boring-and-other-tips-for-living-a-creative-life/
My favourite:
8. If something is authentic enough, it will feel original.
I am no fan of the aspiration to do original work. First of all, that creates an enormous amount of anxiety, and secondly, it is an impossible aspiration, because there’s no such thing as original work. If you show me a piece of artwork that everybody heralds as being totally original, I will bring in ten academics and critics who will look at that work and tell you from where that person drew their inspiration, who they had been reading, what painter they had seen … I’m much more interested in the chain of influence than I am in the narcissism of originality. The only way that you can create authentic work is to, with great humility and great faith and great curiosity, follow your own inquisitiveness, wherever it takes you, and trust that whatever comes out of you will feel original. That while other people may have done the same thing, you didn’t do it yet, and as soon as you do it and put your mark on it, it will, by its own right, start to feel original, as long as it has that authentic heart.
