You work not as an evangelist, expecting miracles, but as a scientist, testing and adjusting and testing again. Experimenting and building on the res… - Rick Rubin

We are required to believe in something that doesn’t exist in order to allow it to come into being.

After all, how can we offer the art what it needs without blind trust? We are required to believe in something that doesn’t exist in order to allow it to come into being.

If you see tremendous beauty or tremendous pain where other people see little or nothing at all, you’re confronted with big feelings all the time. These emotions can be confusing and overwhelming. When those around you don’t see what you see and feel what you feel, this can lead to a sense of isolation and a general feeling of not belonging, of otherness.

It’s helpful to turn those voices down so you can hear the chimes of the cosmic clock ring, reminding you it’s time. Your time to participate.

If you have an idea you’re excited about and you don’t bring it to life,
it’s not uncommon for the idea to find its voice through another maker. This
isn’t because the other artist stole your idea, but because the idea’s time has
come.
In this great unfolding, ideas and thoughts, themes and songs and other
works of art exist in the aether and ripen on schedule, ready to find
expression in the physical world.
As artists, it is our job to draw down this information, transmute it, and
share it. We are all translators for messages the universe is broadcasting.
The best artists tend to be the ones with the most sensitive antennae to draw
in the energy resonating at a particular moment. Many great artists first
develop sensitive antennae not to create art but to protect themselves. They
have to protect themselves because everything hurts more. They feel
everything more deeply.