Will Gompertz: Making

Will Gompertz is British journalist. Explore interesting quotes on making.

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“A far more important lesson to learn from artists is not that they fail, but that they prevail. Artists make. Artists do.”

Think Like an Artist (2015)

“Artists are entrepreneurs. They are willing to stake everything for the chance to go it alone and make the work they feel compelled to create. They will beg and borrow to pay the rent on their studio, to buy the necessary materials, and to feed themselves during the long months of endeavor.”

Think Like an Artist (2015)

“In reality, artists are no more courageous or noble or single-minded than the farmers who go to extreme lengths, in extreme weather, to protect their herd. Or a restaurateur who—having waved goodbye to her last customer at midnight—hauls herself out of bed at 4 A.M. the following morning to make sure she’s at the market in time to buy the best produce. Or, for that matter, a master bricklayer who has calloused fingers and an aching back from days spent building a house.”

Think Like an Artist (2015)

“The future depends on us taking a different approach. One in which we can all express ourselves and contribute to society by using our unique imagination and talent. It’s our brains not our brawn that makes us special and life worth living. Artists had that worked out a long time ago.”

Think Like an Artist (2015)

“It is, after all, our imagination that makes us human. Vincent van Gogh asked, “What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?””

To which the answer is, I would have thought, boring, bordering on pointless.
Think Like an Artist (2015)