“To live as an artist is a way of being in the world. A way of perceiving. A practice of paying attention.”
Rick Rubin, The Creative Act
Epigraph
The object isn’t to make art, it’s to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable.
Robert Henri
Epigraph from
Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act
Organisms as Mentors & Everyday Mystery
The On Being podcast is BACK and I am loving it!
These two episodes were amazing.
Janine Benyus Biomimicry, an Operating Manual for Earthlings on natural organisms as mentors and peers… learning from them rather than about them.
And Rick Rubin Magic, Everyday Mystery, and Getting Creative. I have SO MANY quotes from this one because I listened while parked in the car while Davy napped:
“The real practice of the artist is a way of being in the world.”
“It’s hard for me to finish projects because I always see the possibilities of what else we could try and I want to try everything…”
“What I came to realize is that there is a time for this open play. And it’s in those first two parts of the process, the seed phase… and experimenting.”
“By working with sensitive artists, we resonate together in that we’re feeling things that not everybody else is feeling.”
“There is no connection between the amount of time invested and how good something is.”
“The sustainable part of the practice is: start with things that are easy to do.”