5/31/2023 0 Comments Make Good Art by Neil Gaiman![]() Here’s a little bit of inspiration from the above talk:Īnd remember that whatever discipline you are in, whether you are a musician or a photographer, a fine artist or a cartoonist, a writer, a dancer, a designer, whatever you do you have one thing that’s unique. Since I started this week talking about high school and college graduations and there’s been an educational theme throughout the week, it makes sense to end the week with a graduation speech. The University of the Arts Keynote Address 2012 ![]() And you have to accept that you may put out a hundred things for every bottle that winds up coming back.” A freelance life, a life in the arts, is sometimes like putting messages in bottles, on a desert island, and hoping that someone will find one of your bottles and open it and read it, and put something in a bottle that will wash its way back to you: appreciation, or a commission, or money, or love. You need to be thickskinned, to learn that not every project will survive. “When you start off, you have to deal with the problems of failure. ![]()
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