week 7 of 2023

i love the architectural illustration work from francis.co

it has been a busy week and so i didn’t collect much this week but here are few clipped quotes…

A lot of artists think that suffering is necessary but in reality, any kind of suffering cramps the flow of creativity. If a person is suffering, then they’re creating in spite of that, not because of that.

—David Lynch

…everyone wants to succeed immediately and without pain or effort. Or they love to write books about how to write books, rather than actually writing…a book that might actually be about something. Bad advice is everywhere. Build a following. Establish a platform. Learn how to scam the system. In other words, do all the surface stuff and none of the real work it takes to actually produce something of value. The disease of our times is that we live on the surface. We’re like the Platte River, a mile wide and an inch deep. Real work and real satisfaction comes from the opposite of what the web provides. they come from going deep into something – the book you’re writing, the album, the movie – and staying there for a long, long, time.

— Steven Pressfield