Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, AI, art, artists, creativity, persistence, Thoughts on November 30, 2025| 1 Comment »
The flood of AI art has led to a lot of commentary, some thoughtful, some otherwise, by pundits, tech gurus, and artists themselves.
Here’s cartoonist Matthew Inman sharing his perspective on why he finds AI art problematic.
A cartoonist’s review of AI art – The Oatmeal
…I need you to know from one artist to another, that every mark you make on a page even a squiggly, imperfect one is still beautiful.
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, artists, quotes, Thoughts on August 14, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“The transformation of the heart is a wondrous thing, no matter how you land there.”
— Patti Smith
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, art, artists, creativity, quoteandaprettypicture, Thoughts, Writers, writing on February 27, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“Snatching the eternal out of the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human existence.”
— Tennessee Williams
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, artists, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts, Writers, writing on February 4, 2025| Leave a Comment »
“If l’d waited to know who I was or what I was about before I started ‘being creative,’ well, I’d still be sitting around trying to figure myself out instead of making things. In my experience, it’s in the act of making things and doing our work that we figure out who we are. You’re ready. Start making stuff.”
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Posted in Other, Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, artists, creativity on January 25, 2025| Leave a Comment »
I work in whatever medium likes me at the moment.
—Marc Chagall
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2025, artists, creativity on January 3, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Good advice to artists of all kinds, as quoted in this article on “Les Archives de la Planète” in 77 Stunning Color Photos Of The World’s Cultures A Century Ago:
“I ask only one thing of you,” Kahn said… “It is that you keep your eyes wide open.”
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, art, artists, creativity, Thoughts, Writers, writing on October 19, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity. It’s our attempt to influence things, the universe internal to ourselves and external to us.”
— Mae Jemison, Doctor and Astronaut
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, artists, awards, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts on October 3, 2024| Leave a Comment »
This year’s Genius Grants were announced this week. I love this award, not just for the secrecy and drama, or because deserving artists and innovators are being rewarded (monetarily, even!) for their work, but because the scope and creativity of their ideas helps us all think more expansively.
Here’s the 2024 MacArthur Fellows list – NPR
This year’s Fellows include performing and visual artists, writers, scientists, historians, activists and one filmmaker, Sterlin Harjo. The MacArthur Foundation considers these grants as investments in people whose “ideas, experiments, and solutions expand our expectations of what’s possible.”
Here’s to genius, whatever form it may take.
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Posted in Writing, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, advice, art, artists, creativity, inspiration, Writers on July 5, 2024| Leave a Comment »
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter to the graduating class of New York’s Xavier High School is good advice for all artists, or anyone hoping to “experience becoming.”
Here it is read by another artistic treasure, Gandalf Ian McKellen:
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Posted in Other, tagged #365Ways, #365Ways2024, artists, creativity, inspiration, Thoughts on June 25, 2024| Leave a Comment »
“If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.”
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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J.R. Johnson 
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