A Salute to The Creative Person
Sep. 19th, 2008 11:17 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mbarkerCreativity or paying the bills? All too often, that seems to be the question.
One of the odd rituals that I've developed is pulling up a list of random quotations and reading through them each day. Sometimes there seems to be a related group, sometimes they're just random verbiage, and sometimes there's one that really rings a bell. Today this one caught my eye.
The tension or conflict between doing that great imaginative visionary stuff that really thrills us, and the daily tedium that pays the bills -- as Annie says, it's a hard-knocks' life. And yet, when we really sit down with our self and look at what gets us excited and keeps us going, it's that creative vision. Pay the bills, and then take a minute to look at the stars, to commit yourself once more to doing more than just enough, to random acts of kindness and senseless beauty, to practicing your art as only you can do it.
And the world will be better for this . . .
One of the odd rituals that I've developed is pulling up a list of random quotations and reading through them each day. Sometimes there seems to be a related group, sometimes they're just random verbiage, and sometimes there's one that really rings a bell. Today this one caught my eye.
"The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended." Hugh MacLeod, How to Be Creative: 7. Keep your day job.From http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The tension or conflict between doing that great imaginative visionary stuff that really thrills us, and the daily tedium that pays the bills -- as Annie says, it's a hard-knocks' life. And yet, when we really sit down with our self and look at what gets us excited and keeps us going, it's that creative vision. Pay the bills, and then take a minute to look at the stars, to commit yourself once more to doing more than just enough, to random acts of kindness and senseless beauty, to practicing your art as only you can do it.
And the world will be better for this . . .
