Since late last year, I’ve been putting together a website showcasing my contrasting passions: #journalism and #photography. Today, I’m very excited to finally launch this portfolio of work: https://t.co/m3D9RIO5WE
"There's no diploma in the world that declares you as an artist – it's not like becoming a doctor. You can declare yourself an artist and then figure out how to be an artist."
Kara Walker was born #OnThisDay in 1969.
#InsightOfTheDay Chris Burden
"It's about trying to frame something. And draw attention to it and say: "Here’s the beauty in this. I'm going to put a frame around it, and I think this is beautiful." That’s what artists do. It’s really a pointing activity."
#InsightOfTheDay Elliott Erwitt
"To me, photography is an art of observation. It’s about finding something interesting in an ordinary place… I’ve found it has little to do with the things you see and everything to do with the way you see them."
Every creator should pin Orson Welles' definition of style on their desk:
“Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say, and not giving a damn.”
Know your vision—and your warts. Know the feeling you want to leave your audience with. And then forget about the thousand details that don't matter.
Style exists at the border of caring and not caring.
To be stylish is to care obsessively about what matters—and not at all about what does not.
Nail the essentials, bail on the rest.
That's style.
Your greatest work happens at the confluence of your unconnected obsessions.
Tolkien's college tutors were in "despair" over his random hobbies: writing verse, constructing new languages, and dragon tales.
But without them, he would've never written Lord of the Rings.
@david_perell: "Surrender to your nature." And to your authentic interests. Wherever your attention organically goes, you must follow. Your creative output is nothing but the line connecting the dots you've collected.
The more varied the dots, the better.
"My work is about seeing – seeing things like they haven't been seen before."
Photographer Robert Mapplethorpe was born #OnThisDay in 1946.
Image: Patti Smith, 1975.
✊🏽 RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE released 'The Battle of Los Angeles' — their last studio album of original material — #onthisday in 1999.
What's your favorite song?