artistry

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a49f0ea	Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.	artistry creativity process	Jean M. Auel
edae8e2	"If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat."	artistry literature poet poetic poetry pretentious pretentiousness the-writing-life write writer writing writing-advice	Annie Dillard
27d1aab	"Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too."	art artist artistry discipline literature read reader reading the-writing-life write writer writing writing-advice	Annie Dillard
a8bfbf9	Only the artistic will to transform the future into a space of unlimited art-elevating chances enables us to understand the core of the procreation rule: 'a creator shall you create [...] a self-propelling wheel, a first movement'. This rule contains no less than Nietzsche's theology after the death of God: there will continue to be a God and gods, but only humanity-immanent ones, and only to the extent that there are creators who follow on from what has been achieved in order to go higher, faster and further.	artistry creation death-of-god god humanity immanence nietzsche thought-provoking	Peter Sloterdijk

a49f0ea

Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.

artistry creativity process

Jean M. Auel

edae8e2

"If you ask a twenty-one-year-old poet whose poetry he likes, he might say, unblushing, "Nobody's," In his youth, he has not yet understood that poets like poetry, and novelists like novels; he himself likes only the role, the thought of himself in a hat."

artistry literature poet poetic poetry pretentious pretentiousness the-writing-life write writer writing writing-advice

Annie Dillard

27d1aab

"Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too."

art artist artistry discipline literature read reader reading the-writing-life write writer writing writing-advice

Annie Dillard

a8bfbf9

Only the artistic will to transform the future into a space of unlimited art-elevating chances enables us to understand the core of the procreation rule: 'a creator shall you create [...] a self-propelling wheel, a first movement'. This rule contains no less than Nietzsche's theology after the death of God: there will continue to be a God and gods, but only humanity-immanent ones, and only to the extent that there are creators who follow on from what has been achieved in order to go higher, faster and further.

artistry creation death-of-god god humanity immanence nietzsche thought-provoking

Peter Sloterdijk