5th April 2017 | for Creatives | artists, music, writing, filmmaking, the creative life, value the art, your passion vs. the day job, Jon Westenberg |
"We're basically abolishing the full time musician/writer/filmmaker. We're abolishing the full time creative. That's what's happening. We're giving money to tech platforms to become 'Unicorns' off the backs of creatives, and driving creatives out of business."
"The author T.S. Eliot was also a banker. Another writer, Kurt Vonnegut, sold cars. One of the greatest composers of our time, Philip Glass, didn’t earn a living from his calling making music until he was forty-two. Even as his work was premiering at the Met, he worked as a plumber and renewed his taxi license, just in case."
"There is a lot of talk in creative fields about separating those who are creative and make things from all the other people, but that's fucking bullshit. I don't think you can be a good designer if you don't have a business sense; I don't think you can be a good director if you don't have a sense of production. I think it's all a part of the job and, frankly, we all have the capacity for creative output."
"At the end of the day, we're probably not changing the world with most of the images we're making. Instead, I think the main opportunity to contribute to the greater good is through the relational aspect of what we do as artists. We meet and interact with people form all over the world, all the time. The ability to go beyond the creation of images and to develop a camaraderie with people ... is important. Those relationships will likely last longer than the typical lifespan of an image."
"Staying creative for life means remembering (sometimes on a daily basis) your original why: why you write, why writing matters to you. It means holding onto what's personal and even private in the pursuit, and holding close what's most meaningful."
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