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your work.
And yourself.
Way Walker's personal creativity notes about art, fear, taste, purpose, attention, and the hidden forces that shape what we make.
A Creativity Notes collection
Completion
Finishing, releasing, and letting a work become real.
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Beauty built from hundreds of unsure decisions.
Creative work rarely reveals itself before commitment. It emerges through uncertain choices, solved mistakes, and the courage to take the next step.
The artist’s curse of time.
Why time and evaluation can turn creative possibility into doubt, and how choosing, sacrificing, and beginning brings an idea to life.
An artist’s beautiful ghost.
Artists fall in love with what something could become.
A message from the future.
At the end of your life, what will you regret?
When is your art done?
Leonardo da Vinci said “A work of art is never finished, only abandoned". And so at what point in our creative process should we give ourselves permission to abandon the art?
Your art might be finished. But not done.
We’re conditioned to believe that length equals seriousness. That complexity equals intelligence. That if something is hard to follow, it must be saying something important.
Your worst day ever.
The day is approaching. Every creators worst nightmare. That day…is “Someday”.
My favorite quotes from creativity books about perfectionism.
Below are my favorite excerpts and quotes form creativity books about perfectionism. Enjoy!
Your ideas are alive.
Your ideas are living, breathing forces waiting to break free. Each one fights for survival, growth, and ultimately, immortality.
Plant the tree.
Plant your tree today.
New Year, Same Project?
Are you working on the same creative project you promised yourself you would complete last year?