Reporters: “Why did you do it?”
Philippe: “You know .. “why? why?”.. that is a very American finger-slapping question. I did something magnificent and mysterious and I got a practical “why?.” The beauty of it is that I didn’t have any “why.””
Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life - Oscar Wilde
Approaching The Mystery
“The most important thing about art is to work. Nothing else matters except sitting down every day and trying.
Why is this so important?
Because when we sit down day after day and keep grinding, something mysterious starts to happen. A process is set into motion by which, inevitably and infallibly, heaven comes to our aid. Unseen forces enlist in our cause; serendipity reinforce our purpose.
This is the other secret the artist know and wannabe writers don’t. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insight accrete.”
Source: The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
Resistance
On the field of the Self stand a knight and a dragon.
You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
* To learn more about Resisteance:
Out there someone else sits as I do, wondering of my existence.
(via into-the-universe)
The Blank Canvas
“Hitler wanted to be an artist. At eighteen he took his inheritance, seven hundred kornen, and moved to Vienna to live and study. He applied to the Academy of Fine Arts and later to the School of Architecture. Ever see one of his paintings? Neither have I. Resistance beat him. Call it overstatement but I’ll say it anyway: it was easier for Hitler to start World War II than it was for him to face a blank square of canvas.”
Source: The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield
