Shut up and make something
Posted: December 2, 2006 Filed under: Uncategorized 2 Comments »
What is the most important thing we can do as artists? We can make something damn it!! We can’t just talk about making things we have to sit down, stand up, pace, jump up and down, whatever it is that we do when making but we have to do it. I can’t think of anything worse for an artist of any sort than time spent not making their work. Make something!! Make something!!
When I leave the studio for a good amount of time and think about the work I want to make I always feel that I can make it easily once I get back into the studio. Making art isn’t like riding a bike it is not muscle memory it is something that has to be worked through, mulled over through the act of making. Making shows us the way to the completion of our artwork.
I would like to disagree just to disagree but I won’t. I totally agree and will just say “what you lose on the sandwiches, you make on the rooms”. I’m pretty sure that I got that from Damien Hirst and I think it means something like get your ass in gear and make something now because tomorrow you could be dead.
Damn straight. Love him or hate him Damien Hirst doesn’t play around he is always making things. Of course whatever he makes sells for millions of dollars but that wasn’t always the case.