WHAT'S GOING ON? - DAWOUD BEY'S BLOG: Advice to A Young Artist: "• Make good work! Be self-critical and informed enough to know if the work you are doing stacks up to the work you would like to be hanging next to. Through constant engagement with work that is being shown, know where and if your work fits into a particular area of current discourse. Nothing else matters more than this, and nothing else will make up for this if you are not doing it.
• Put in 10,000 hours (see Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers.” Gladwell posits that successful people—across a wide range of fields--have put in 10,000 hours of practice to reach their level of success.) Like any other profession, being an artist requires physically getting up and “going to work.” The sooner you begin your professional journey the more time you will have to put in the requisite number of hours."
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Advice to A Young Artist
One of the best posts I have read in quite a while. Make Good Work. Work Hard. Achieve Success through hard, self and peer critique. This one I'm printing out. Read it all!
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Great stuff, Don. Funny, that 10,000 hours thing reminded me of an old Bruce Lee quote: "I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”
Concentrating on your craft, and practicing over and over is key to achieving success.
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