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We're making it all up.
Sep. 13th, 2009 03:09 pmOy. No more clothes-shopping with my mom. She makes me feel guilty for picking out clothes I like instead of.. I dunno, more office clothes. Come on, Mom, I'm twenty-two, I don't need to dress like a hip thirty-five-year-old. On the brighter side, I found some very nice gray cotton pants to replace the ones that recently tore in an unfortunate place.
Anyway, on to the next.
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Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy
"If there's a thing, a scene maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does."
- Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
That is the clearest, most succinct way I've ever heard the drive to create described. That's really all it is- something (a picture, a song, a story, etc) in your head that you just have to get out, if only so that it exists in the real world. Reading that kind of blew me away as a high school kid in 2005, and it's a big part of why Skinny Legs and All is way up there on my list of all-time favorite books.
Anyway, on to the next.
SHARE!
Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy
"If there's a thing, a scene maybe, an image that you want to see real bad, that you need to see but it doesn't exist in the world around you, at least not in the form that you envision, then you create it so that you can look at it and have it around, or show it to other people who wouldn't have imagined it because they perceive reality in a more narrow, predictable way. And that's it. That's all an artist does."
- Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
That is the clearest, most succinct way I've ever heard the drive to create described. That's really all it is- something (a picture, a song, a story, etc) in your head that you just have to get out, if only so that it exists in the real world. Reading that kind of blew me away as a high school kid in 2005, and it's a big part of why Skinny Legs and All is way up there on my list of all-time favorite books.
