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
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