The more you make art the better you become.
When starting out a career in the arts you have no idea what you art are doing. This is amazing.
"People who know what they are doing no the rules and they know what is possible and what is impossible and you do not. And you should not."
"The rules of what is possible and impossible in the arts are made to by people who had not tested the bounds of the possible, by going beyond them and you can. If you don't no its impossible its easier to do. And because no body has done it before they haven't made up any rules to stop you doing that particular thing again.
Secondly if you have an idea of what you want to make, what you where put here to do, then just go and do that. And thats much harder than it sounds. And sometimes in the end so much easier than you had imagined. Because normally there are things you have to do before you can get to the place you want to be."
"Sometimes the way to do what you hope to do, will be clear cut and sometimes it will be almost impossible to decide wether or not your doing the correct thing because you have to balance your goals and hopes, feeding yourself, paying debts, finding work, settling for what you can get."
"When you start out you have to deal with the problems of failure. You need to be thick skinned, to learn that not every project will survive."
You have to accept you may put out hundreds of things for every one work that is successful.
"The problems of failure, the problems of discouragement, hopelessness and hunger, you want everything to happen and you want it to happen now and things go wrong."
"The things I did because I was excited and wanted to see them exist in reality have never let me down. And I have never regret any of the time spend on any of them. The problems of failure is hard the problems of success is can be harder because nobody warns you about them."
"If you make mistakes it means your out there doing something."You will learn as much from your failures as you do from your mistakes.Whatever field you may be in within the art you have a unique ability to make art.
"Sometimes life is hard and things go wrong, in life, in love, in business and in friendship, in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough this is what you should do, make good art.""do what only you can do best makle good art."
Make your art, do the stuff that only you can do, although most of us only find our own voices by sounding all the same at some point, but the one thing that nobody has but you, is you.
"No one knows what the landscape will look like in the next two years, let alone a decade away. The distribution channels that people had built over the last century or so are influx for print for visual artist, musicians, for creative people of all kinds, which is on one hand intimidating and on the other immensely liberating."
"The old rules are crumbling and nobody knows what the new rules are. So make up your own rules."
"Be wise because the world needs more wisdom, and if you cannot be wise pretend to be someone who is wise and then just behave like they would. And now go and make mistakes, make interesting mistakes, glorious and fantastic mistakes, break rules, leave the world more interesting for your being here, make good art."
Neil Gaiman Addresses the University of the Arts Class of 2012
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