Planted on:
May 19, 2024 2:18 PM
Tended on:
May 19, 2024 2:28 PM
It’s not a matter of having so much push that you force yourself to do the work. But it’s also not about having so much pull that you are compelled to do the work as if by some magical force.
It’s more that we need the push and the pull in equal measure, such that both contribute to the eventual getting things done.
Seed Source:
Adam Moss, being interviewed by Ezra Klein
Found through Austin Kleon, The Work of Art
The essence of making art is having play and rigor in pretty much equal balance or child and adult in pretty much equal balance. It’s so hard. It’s so hard to get the equilibrium right. You’re too childish, and you can make a glorious mess, but it has no structure to it. It becomes unintelligible to another human being. Too much adult and the thing has no fire. There’s nothing animating it. So this crazy middle ground in all of these cases that we’re talking about is somehow where you have to live. And it’s very hard to be there. (View Highlight)