Photo credit: A mashup of Chuck Close self-portrait and some guy drinking coffee reading his paper
Inspiration
It would be splendid if the clouds would part and a voice from the sky would tell us exactly what to do.
If you wait for something like that before you work on your life, what we might call your art, you will not get much creative work completed.
As a world-renowned artist, Chuck Close said, “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 seldom the case.”
Our art, our life, and our Ikigai are uncovered by starting, by moving, by doing, by trying.
Reflection and sidenote:
I sat down yesterday to create an entirely different post. The Canva app had other ideas.
Rather than wait for the app to start working, I decided to do exactly what I shared in the post here.
Start
I started writing, and before long, this idea came to me, and frankly, it is better than my original post would have been.
Canva finally started working after I finished writing, and I decided to have some fun with my ‘art.’
Thus the mashup with Chuck Close's realistic self-portrait and the Ikigai Guy pic.
This is the best inspiration for the uninitiated and also for those who are not yet sure of their calling (like me ).
Starting doing something you feel interesting , being totally involved in the process may lead to the path of some wonderful discovery.Thanks for sharing this post.