Minutes of a Monday #43

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Brain Food > Playing to play

“Art is a work in progress. It’s helpful to see the piece we’re working on as an experiment. One in which we can’t predict the outcome. Whatever the result, we will receive useful information that will benefit the next experiment. If you start from the position that there is no right or wrong, no good or bad, and creativity is just free to play with no rules, it’s easier to submerge yourself joyfully in the process of making things.

We’re not playing to win, we’re playing to play. And ultimately, playing is fun. Perfectionism gets in the way of fun. A more skillful goal might be to find comfort in the process. To make and put out successive works with ease.

Oscar Wilde said that some things are too important to be taken seriously. Art is one of those things. Setting the bar low, especially to get started, frees you to play, explore and test without attachment to results.

This is not just a path to more supportive thoughts. Active play and experimentation until we’re happily surprised is how the best work reveals itself.”

Rick Rubin from his book “The Creative Act: A Way of Being”

Soul Food

"Am I genuinely eccentric? Or am I just wearing a funny hat?" 

Tom Waits

LOL

Jake Humprhey’s misses the French connection:

Appendix

“Feelings are nothing final or original; behind feelings there stand judgements and evaluations which we inherit in the form of…inclinations, aversions…The inspiration born of a feeling is the grandchild of a judgement - and often a false judgment - and in any event not a child of your own!”

Friedrich Nietzsche

AOB

Have a great week ya’ll - Niall