Esse livro é maravilhoso. Ele te dá um abraço quentinho, faz um cafuné na cabeça e diz que vai ficar tudo bem.
O autor descreve, explica e soluciona todos os maiores medos dos artistas, sempre afirmando que não importa se você começou ontem ou já trabalha há décadas: não existe perfeição na arte, não existe fórmula pronta para a arte, não existe arte sem medo.
Dá vontade de arrancar todas as páginas do livro e colar na parede de tantas citações incríveis que tem.
"Those who continue to make art are those who have learned how to continue or more precisely, have learned how to not quit."
"Quiting means not starting again and art is all about starting again."
"To require perfection is to invite paralysis."
"You find reasons to procrastinate, since to not work is to not make mistakes. Believing that artwork should be perfect, you gradually become convinced that you cannot make such work. (You are correct.) Sooner or later, since you cannot do what you are trying to do, you quit."
"Between the initial idea and the finished piece lies a gulf we can see across, but never fully chart."
"The artist, if asked whether an art piece could be remade with identical results, would have to answer no or it wouldn't be art."
"In the end it all comes down to this: you have a choice (or more accurately a rolling tangle of choices) between giving your work your best shot and risking that it will not make you happy, or not giving it your best shot and thereby guaranteeing that it will not make you happy. It becomes a choice between certainty and uncertainty. And curiously, uncertainty is the comforting choice."
