What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere. All creative work builds on what came before. - Austin Kleon

What a good artist understands is that nothing comes from nowhere.

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That, in a way, is very much how I feel about my life,” she said. “Whether it will ever be recognizable by anyone else I don’t know, but I feel that great new things are happening very quietly inside me. And I know these things have a way, like the maple tree, of finally bursting out in some form.” For Kent, the tree came to represent creativity itself. Like a tree, creative work has seasons. Part of the work is to know which season you’re in, and act accordingly. In winter, “the tree looks dead, but we know it is beginning a very deep process, out of which will come spring and summer.

If you want to be interesting, you have to be interested.