“Separate the processes of creatingfrom improving. You can’t write and edit or sculpt and polish or make and analyze at the same time. If you do, the editor stops the creator. While you invent, don’t select. While you sketch, don’t inspect. While you write the first draft, don’t reflect. At the start, the creator mind Continue reading

“In art we research our feelings. Artists are feelings merchants–a piece of art is something designed to trigger feelings.” “Through art, you can investigate the kind of feelings you want to have, and where to get them. Art gives us the chance to answer the question: What is it that I really like?” “The things Continue reading

“I keep coming back to Cartier-Bresson and his paradoxical ethos of a technical prowess that cares not for technique. ‘People think far too much about technique,’ he says in one of his famous aphorisms, “and not enough about seeing.’” “Consider what happens when you take a picture—I mean, what is going on inside you, the Continue reading

“It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.” “Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers, Continue reading

“You have to be able to feel where the edge is in particular training sessions, to have a sense of pace from the catch of your breath and the weight of your legs, and you have to be able to be attentive to the background fatigue that is the constant companion of any athlete.” “‘You Continue reading