“Your growth as an artist is not in being able to impress others, or even God. Growth comes by understanding how limited you are.
“Learning to use your wings means learning the discipline as a means to grace.
“Give yourself boundaries and goals; start with small things, like having a small table dedicated to your poems. Emily Dickinson wrote her poems on a small 18” x 18” desk in her room in Amherst. Do not put anything other than your poems, though, on that area. Guard against the world invading your boundaries.
“Learning to paint, play the piano, or dance has much to do with keeping your self-set boundaries, otherwise you will not own your craft.
“We are each given unique wings with unique particulars of how to use our wings; no one else can fly for you. You have to jump off the edge, and spread your wings.”
- Makoto Fujimura
Fujimura is a talented artist, but he'd do us all a favor by keeping his philosophy of limitations to himself.
ReplyDeleteYou wish for him to limit his own comments? Tsk, tsk.
ReplyDeleteWell ... yes.
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