Comments on: don’t worry about being an artist. just worry about getting the work made.

By: Don’t worry about being an artist.

Don’t worry about being an artist. — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 10:44:57 +0000

[…] Hugh MacLeod, cartoonist, via his Gaping Void blog This entry was posted in Outsiders and tagged Enrichment, Just Do It, MacLeod. Bookmark the […]

By: Michelle

Michelle — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:48:12 +0000

I make art, but studied History. My work involves the studio and the pursuit of great places with a story. Meeting people in their nineties or their children and touring the buildings they lived their lives in informs the work. I am glad I didn’t go to art school.

By: Robin Brown Davis

Robin Brown Davis — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:33:45 +0000

Creating one of anything is fun. Having to recreate, weeds out the sissies.

By: Maria Brophy

Maria Brophy — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:41:07 +0000

I read about an aspiring writer who went to a writing class being taught by a famous, successful author. Two minutes after class began, the author told all the students “What the hell are you doing in here?! Go home and write!”

By: Mary Anne Davis

Mary Anne Davis — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:37:05 +0000

Sounds about right. Thanks for the reminder.

By: Sknygrydg07

Sknygrydg07 — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:09:52 +0000

So good — like warm laundry with special smelling drier sheets.

Very important to remember.

By: A Photo Editor - We get so fixated on our own shtick

A Photo Editor - We get so fixated on our own shtick — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:41:41 +0000

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By: Antonella Peschechera

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 08:43:44 +0000

Thanks Hugh for this. In such a rainy and sad day. The greatest Italian contemporary poet Alda Merini has just died and I am feeling an orphan.

By: Monique

Monique — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 05:32:10 +0000

What? Fill my hours of pouting and feet-stomping and depression and contemplation with work? Oh, man…

By: andrea ajoseph

andrea ajoseph — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:22:35 +0000

This makes me happy.

By: Jeff Paal

Jeff Paal — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:23:56 +0000

This is true.

By: Karl Smith

Karl Smith — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:38:55 +0000

So true, Hugh. Many professions (and all of the arts) are so hermetically sealed it’s really difficult to breathe, much less think and get work done.
Skip the cocktail party and the gallery opening and spend a few more hours perfecting your craft.
Live, Love, and WORK and let success catch up to you.
Now I’m off to practice what I preach.….

By: Tim Clague

Tim Clague — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:32:50 +0000

Certainly true for scriptwriters too. The danger is massive — a bunch of films about middle aged / middle class artistic types. Instead people want films about their lives and new ideas. Essentially your blog post could also be called ‘get your head out your own ass’

By: Stephen Tiano

Stephen Tiano — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:30:06 +0000

Very good. I’m reminded of some writer who said that he had greater faith that a person would actually write if they said they planned to write, rather than that they planned to be a writer.