#postcardquotes — Public Fediverse posts

If you keep following where the work leads, you will create a path to follow next time. #SuccessiveApproximation #Ritual #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

You have hundreds of excuses not to make the that thing you want to make. Do not use them. #AbortiveAttempts #MakeTheThingThatIsNot #postcardquotes

You may have a hard time deciding whether it is still unhatched or already has wings. #Abandonment #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

"NARRATOR: But it was.
#Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

"NARRATOR: But it was.
#Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

"NARRATOR: But it was.
#Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

"NARRATOR: But it was.
#Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

"NARRATOR: But it was.
#Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

You may have a hard time deciding whether it is still unhatched or already has wings. #Abandonment #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

"Make up a rule.
Follow it until it breaks.
#Ritual #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

Plato was not always right. #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

"Look at all those other people going places!
Is there any reason you shouldn't hop on and go, too?
#MakeTheThingThatIsNot #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

We often do not know—once we choose a beginning—what shape our project will take. Often it is beneficial to walk away from it or set it aside to that all its ideas have time to spread and grow, to take shape. #TaskAvoidance #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

If you make enough little things, at some point you will have big things to deal with. #WasteBooks #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

The past is there for the taking — disassemble your idols and use the parts to #MakeTheThingThatIsNot. #StealFromTheBest. #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

"Look at all those other people going places!
Is there any reason you shouldn't hop on and go, too?
#MakeTheThingThatIsNot #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

Every #ABANDONMENT hurts. Would it be less painful to finish it? (p. 42) #postcardquotes

If you make enough little things, at some point you will have big things to deal with. #WasteBooks #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

The thing about STEALING FROM THE PAST is that they can't tell you you're doing it wrong. #StealFromTheBest #postcardquotes

MAKING THE THING THAT IS NOT does not happen if you don't provide a time and place for it. Draw a circle around your time and space and make it safe for your art. #Ritual #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

"You see it as a flaw.
Step back.
Look again.
#Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

Learning to look at work to see where it might need adjusting also includes learning to see work that is presenting itself: the front of this card was random scraps until I saw them in place. #Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

Do not concern yourself with time. Either it is time to work, or it isn't. Either you have time to make the thing that is not, or you don't. #TaskAvoidance #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

Your void is incomplete. You should fix that. #AbortiveAttempts #postcardquotes

Other artists' doors are there for you to walk through. (photo by Elsa Mota Gomes, "The Door, Elvas, Portugal," detail) #StealFromTheBest #postcardquotes

Making the Thing That Is Not is just connecting the dots — only you have to draw them. And also number them. #MakeTheThingThatIsNot #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

Do not mistake your work — your products — with that part of you that makes it. #Ritual #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

No matter how well-engineered our lives may be, actual growth and blooming and change always happen within us. #MakeTheThingThatIsNot #postcardquotes

Do not concern yourself with time. Either it is time to work, or it isn't. Either you have time to make the thing that is not, or you don't. #TaskAvoidance #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

The past is there for the taking — disassemble your idols and use the parts to #MakeTheThingThatIsNot. #StealFromTheBest. #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

"Look at all those other people going places!
Is there any reason you shouldn't hop on and go, too?
#MakeTheThingThatIsNot #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

That moment when we're tempted to think our first effort is enough — #TaskAvoidance gives us the distance to apply #Gestalt to what is actually an #AbortiveAttempts, thus proving: #CrasMeliorEst. #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

"You see it as a flaw.
Step back.
Look again.
#Gestalt #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

We can try, but we cannot organize the stars. We can only simplify. #MakeTheThingThatIsNot #postcardquotes

"Didn't get it right the first time?
Nudge it,
adjust it,
tinker with it —
or do it again,
betterer.
#SuccessiveApproximation #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

"Closer and closer.
That's all you should worry about.
#SuccessiveApproximation #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

"Didn't get it right the first time?
Nudge it,
adjust it,
tinker with it —
or do it again,
betterer.
#SuccessiveApproximation #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes

All things must change to something new, something strange. (Longfellow) Be new. Be strange. #SuccessiveApproximation #postcardquotes

Sometimes you have to go down a few space-time portals (aka 'rabbit holes') to get there. #SuccessiveApproximation #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

You'll never get a golden guinea pig without 1) crossbreeding with new ideas; and 2) breaking the rules. #SuccessiveApproximation #postcardquotes

If you keep following where the work leads, you will create a path to follow next time. #SuccessiveApproximation #Ritual #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes

You'll never get a golden guinea pig without 1) crossbreeding with new ideas; and 2) breaking the rules. #SuccessiveApproximation #postcardquotes

If you make enough little things, at some point you will have big things to deal with. #WasteBooks #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes