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[魔剣] Don📚 :
Most people do not understand that ART IS HARD!😭 It takes work, time, and experience to really make great art. Its not this mumbo jumbo magic. Art is a craft
2026-07-13 20:14:50
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dangolpeck :
This reminds me of one of my spouses favorite quotes: "It doesn't stop being magic just because you know how it works." - Terry Prachett
2026-07-12 18:27:21
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JP O'Hara :
It's nearly impossible to meaningfully and creatively break the rules if you don't know how to follow the rules
2026-07-13 13:50:16
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Dafne. :
Readers are the BEST writers
2026-07-13 18:25:24
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ylinux :
Academic intelligence is not only about intelligence but also tremendous hard work and grit
2026-07-14 13:16:16
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jojosbizzarepeak :
Smart = good grades good grades ≠ smart
2026-07-14 08:41:19
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Just a little different :
I really like this Mary Oliver quote from her poetry handbook: "Everyone knows that poets are born and not made in school. This is true also of painters, sculptors, and musicians. Something that is essential can’t be taught; it can only be given, or earned, or formulated in a manner too mysterious to be picked apart and re-designed for the next person. Still, painters, sculptors, and musicians require a lively acquaintance with the history of their particular field and with past as well as current theories and techniques. And the same is true of poets. Whatever can’t be taught, there is a great deal that can, and must, be learned."
2026-07-12 19:43:06
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sssvvvsss24 :
also, because you didn't read about something, it doesn't mean that information didn't came to you in anyways, towards culture. a lot of people really think they discovered fire
2026-07-13 11:53:50
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DogsShouldVote :
I think this is why Andy Weir is so successful and refreshing, having a sci fi author who actually knows what they’re talking about is a pretty unique perspective
2026-07-12 19:03:52
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user223425368 :
Ive always felt that authors who claim reading books "taint" their inspiration and takes away from its originality fail to realize that the same could be applied to movies/shows. So if reading somehow takes away your originality when writing, then watching movies would too, and I guarantee that all these authors watch movies quite regularly.
2026-07-13 19:41:31
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Popcor12🥂 :
As the original creator, i take back my statement. When I made that video i was referring to high school education; however, the way I went about that was horrible. My whole take was meant to be about how majority of high school academics is memorization. But after rewatching the video it’s clear that I wasn’t being very clear on that and was belittling higher levels of academics and education overall. That was truly an error on my part and I see how dumb I sound
2026-07-14 23:31:45
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🫦🍔BIG BITE BADDIE🍔🫦 :
Great teachers are great students 🤷🏾♂️
2026-07-13 15:28:53
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Noah M :
People like to downplay how much work goes into these pursuits whether it’s academics, arts, fitness, fourth thing
2026-07-14 02:44:40
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cozyjamesoak :
i think it’s more about “the academic world has rejected me so i reject it while still allowing myself expression and ego”. not saying it’s right, just saying it’s covering for something more real.
2026-07-13 15:53:13
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rey :
Yup. Same thing with art styles. Learning fundamentals is what makes you learn shortcuts that eventually become your art style.
2026-07-13 12:36:06
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hopefullytim :
I understand and agree with the core message. But I also think it’s important to acknowledge that the tools of criticism and analysis are different than the tools of creation. A good artist needs to be able to engage with the tools of analysis in the editing and refinement stage. But so often editors and critics make terrible artist because they’re trying to reverse engineer creativity from deconstruction and it comes out trite and formulaic or overly theoretical. I think most artists who shun things like “themes” and “motifs” do so because those things come from the toolset of analysis. Even music theory is at best a tool of refinement not creation. But lives firmly in the world of understanding a thing that already exists. Not generating a new thing. If you talk to successful artists who are critical of overly formalised “literacy” about their process and methodology very few of them will talk about just winging it they just have approaches that live more firmly in the world of manipulating the creative process with an intuitive eye developed over years of study. Often overly engaging in analytical tools *is* at odds with producing good work. That doesn’t mean they’re winging it or illiterate. I’m firmly in the camp that adjectives and nouns (theme, motif, structure) are reductive analytical tools, creativity is verbs how to *do*. Now to make a full sentence you need both. But art driven by an overly analytical approach is often static and unmoving in multiple senses of the words.
2026-07-14 15:58:31
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RoRo :
My photo professor always said you have to know the rules before you can break them.
2026-07-14 18:00:03
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tiisetsomaloma_writes :
Both of you are right to self
2026-07-14 07:11:09
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iris :
Lily Alexandre on youtube has a great video on “wonder” and how knowing how something or why something is the way it is doesn’t destroy the wonder we feel about it.
2026-07-13 10:04:06
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Alexa Goodsky :
You gotta know the rules in order to break them
2026-07-14 16:03:04
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J Michelle :
I'm an artist that went to art school and I can tell you that not all artists thrive under the same conditions. Some people did well using specific techniques or through inspiration from other artists. Some, me included, needed to find their way through experimentation. It wasn't for clout, my brain just didn't do well under the constraint of trying to express through structure. I tried many times and my most successful work was always when I flowed with the inspiration in the moment. I'm not into pretentious takes that people that do work well under structure are less creative though. I think that's what you're picking up on rather than the actual practice of the artist being inherently wrong.
2026-07-13 16:06:46
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Dead :
ive never tried to put themes in my writing, and yet reading my own writing i find hella themes, the themes are the point and if you got none you got no story just events being told in sequence
2026-07-12 20:29:16
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elusive_world :
The only people who truly innovate are the ones who actually know all theory. Even accidental discoveries are made by experts in their fields.
2026-07-13 19:14:03
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Fujo warrior :
You have to know the rules in order to break them
2026-07-14 22:34:14
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Saverio🇨🇦 :
Read the book, Connections written by James Burke. He show’s over and over that creativity comes from the interaction of individuals and ideas.
2026-07-13 19:40:22
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