Where do ideas and art come from anyway? It’s all well and good to talk about ‘artistic process’ in an abstract fashion but it really is all about doing something – anything – and then doing something else. Progress in process is all in the doing.
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I don’t do as much as I would like to. Infact I don’t even do as much as I intend to do. There’s this great inexplicable and hard-to-describe resistance that gnaws at me. I try to ignore it. It gets louder. I usually then procrastinate, play computer games, over-eat, over-sleep… But it doesn’t stand up to close scrunity. The voice inside me that says “You’ll never be able to do this” doesn’t make a lot of sense in the face of the understanding that I’ve usually done some version of the task before. Often numerous times. But, as Steve Pressfield notes in The War Of Art, it doesn’t have to make sense. It is an emotional impulse not a logical one.
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