{"id":5507,"date":"2019-06-24T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/?p=5507"},"modified":"2019-07-22T19:21:11","modified_gmt":"2019-07-23T00:21:11","slug":"inspiring-quotes-for-the-creative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/2019\/06\/24\/inspiring-quotes-for-the-creative\/","title":{"rendered":"Inspiring Quotes for the Creative"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Don’t be afraid to be obsessed.”<\/p>Annie Leibovitz – from a Masterclass.com commercial just now (19:32hrs CST July 11th, 2019).<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“You become a writer by writing. There is no other way.”<\/p>Margaret Atwood \u2014 from the very same Masterclass commercial as mentioned above.<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“I look for a tone. I look for that spark. Oooooooo! That’s dope!”<\/p>

\u201cThere\u2019s no thought process. It\u2019s about having fun.\u201d
\u201cIf you love it that much, it\u2019s gonna happen.\u201d – Timbaland#quotes<\/a> #quoteoftheday<\/a> #quotesaboutlife<\/a>\u2014 ??????? ????????? (@Pickering) June 21, 2019<\/a><\/p>I recently heard this from Timbaland in a youtube ad for a new Masterclass he is teaching about music production. But I think the jist can (should?) be applied to any creative activity or maybe even life in general. <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“Creating for yourself should always be first, before anything else.” https:\/\/t.co\/SqVZecRiL7<\/a>#quotes<\/a> #quoteoftheday<\/a> #quotesaboutlife<\/a> #Creative<\/a> #creativity<\/a>\u2014 ??????? ????????? (@Pickering) June 24, 2019<\/a><\/p>An article I happened upon today at theverge about the illustrator D’ana Nunez<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I’ve always let the music tell me what to do, and let things happen by circumstance. – Jack White<\/p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/R17ZBXo1oJ0?t=145<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I like to, to me it’s a testament to myself that I don’t tell the music what to do, I don’t tell myself what to do. The music is telling me what to do. I say, Look, let it happen. Just let it happen.<\/p>

https:\/\/youtu.be\/OLhDFSpAvrs?t=299<\/a><\/p>Jack White Youtube 4:59<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“Stop! You see what the feeling made me do? That’s what it should do to you!” <\/em><\/strong>\u2014 Timbaland, from that same Masterclass ad on Youtube. Those Masterclass ads are great. It’s just that I have so many subscriptions already. They’ll probably close me one of these days though. “That’s what I’m here on Earth to do.”<\/strong> ibid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“Don’t be afraid to be obsessed.” Annie Leibovitz – from a Masterclass.com commercial just now (19:32hrs CST July 11th, 2019). “You become a writer by writing. There is no other way.” Margaret Atwood \u2014 from the very same Masterclass commercial … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[86,89],"tags":[287,477,478,376],"class_list":["post-5507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-minute-tips","category-philosophy","tag-creativity","tag-inspiration","tag-life101","tag-quotes-2"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5507\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenpickering.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}