You don't know how much artists go through to make it look so easy. It's all in the practice.
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When you are an artist, you want your audience to think it's effortless and easy.
Most artists don't understand what they do, and I don't think we have to. Other people do that better - they understand what I do better than I do!
You know, for a long time I have been of the opinion that artists don't necessarily know what they're doing. You don't necessarily know what kind of universal concept you're tapping into.
In fact, most artists want to make things a bit more difficult for themselves as they go along, to challenge themselves.
Artistry is important. Skill, hard work, rewriting, editing, and careful, careful craft: All of these are necessary. These are what separate the beginners from experienced artists.
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
You know, artists don't really have all that much experience of life. We make a huge amount out of the small experience that we do have.
Part of being an artist is that you are always concerned you don't have what it takes. It... keeps us honest.
Being an artist, it's all a journey, and you learn where the subtle patterns lie.
You get to a point where you really can't manage more artists, because representing artists takes a lot of time.
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