Shadow Artists “For many families, a career in the arts exists outside of their social and economic reality: ‘Art won’t pay the electric bill.’ As a result, if the child is encouraged to consider art in job terms at all, he or she must consider it sensibly.” Cameron, pg. 26 “Fledgling artists may be encouraged…
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Perfectionism Is A Creativity Killer – Let’s Allow Ourselves to Create Imperfectly
Twenty years ago, I was paralyzed with depression and its sidekick: fear. A bad marriage and a worse divorce had reduced me to almost nothing. After years of having been told that I was not an artist, I had quit painting, and I had been silenced from the years of having been shamed about my…
Let’s Allow Ourselves to be Imperfect. Perfectionism is the Enemy of Creativity
Twenty years ago, I was paralyzed with depression and its sidekick: fear. A bad marriage and a worse divorce had reduced me to almost nothing. After years of having been told that I was not an artist, I had quit painting, and I had been silenced from the years of having been shamed about my…