"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 do 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 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 Close
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