Don't wait around for inspiration by Chuck Close/Art and inspiration quote

Charles Courtney Curran painting

The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody
who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration.
Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and
get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and
a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not
going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come
out of the process; they come out of the work itself.


Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream
up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything
happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you
and something else will occur to you and something else that
you reject will push you in another direction.
Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive.
You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down
to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.
Chuck Close, artist

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