Mason Currey
Person on 4 sites
American writer on how artists work; author of Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, Daily Rituals: Women at Work and Making Art and Making a Living, and of the…
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4 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
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3 channels on ppll (opens ppll.app)
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7 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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Creative work proceeds through surges of doubt and confidence; a good practice may keep you cycling between them (opens korrents.com)
“That last line really struck me, because of course that’s right—all creative work proceeds through surges of doubt and confidence, and maybe the test of a successful practice is if it keeps you flowing from one state…”
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In some fundamental sense, the best creative work happens when you don't know what you're doing and stay outside your comfort zone (opens korrents.com)
“This is one of the throughlines of all my books and this newsletter: that in some fundamental sense, the best creative work happens when you don’t know what you’re doing (or how you’re going to pay for it)—when you get…”
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Money is a paltry measure of a thing's worth, yet it is the measure we all live by (opens korrents.com)
“Money is such a paltry measure of a thing’s worth, and yet it’s the measure we all live by, as Van Gogh knew all too well.”
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Creative work proceeds through surges of doubt and confidence; a good practice may keep you cycling between them (opens korrents.com)
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3 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Eno (opens rcmnd.app)
“Huge thanks to my friend Sabrina Y. Smith for getting me out to see the Eno documentary, which I can’t recommend highly enough.”
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Oblique Strategies (opens rcmnd.app)
“First, a disclosure: I don’t actually own the physical deck. There’s a web version that I have bookmarked, which I sometimes use when stuck on writing projects”
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Butts: A Backstory (opens rcmnd.app)
“It’s genuinely fascinating and insightful, and I highly recommend picking up a copy at your local bookstore”
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Eno (opens rcmnd.app)