being an artist means:
sometimes art school is frustrating. some days you'll be soaring full of ideas and creativity. some days you'll feel really discouraged. some days nothing is good enough.
...being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doean't force its sap, and stands confidantly in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast...
-Letters to a Young Poet
some days i'm so patient. i believe that i'm being taught something i don't know. but it's a huge leap of faith on my part. how do you teach art? are my professors teaching it right? am i just not learning right?
my 2-d design class ended today. the assignments weren't hard but they were poorly explained and i don't think i ever did the best job i could because the direction of the assignemnt was unclear to me. i also felt like we didn't do anything that i learned from. it was all too conceptual. we can't really apply it to our own work if we only work in the conceptual. these tech labs kick my ass. it doesn't seem to matter if i work really hard or just do the work. if i kill myself over it, i get a b. if i work pretty hard i get a c. and most of the tech labs you can't re-do assignments, which i think is major bull shit. how are you suppossed to learn if you can't resubmit your work? it doesn't seem fair to grade work that's been critiqued but not improved. i hate that. plus i like to work out my problems on the assignment that brought up the problem in the first place because the next assignments wil have its own kinks to work out. i just don't feel like i got anything out of this class and i had to do so much tedious work. so i'm frustrated. i wouldn't mind taking this class again, if i was going to learn something.
...be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take any one with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change and change again... don't ask for any advice from them and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish...
-letters, cont'd
so many artist's biographies talk about unlearning everything they learned in art school.
...being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doean't force its sap, and stands confidantly in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast...
-Letters to a Young Poet
some days i'm so patient. i believe that i'm being taught something i don't know. but it's a huge leap of faith on my part. how do you teach art? are my professors teaching it right? am i just not learning right?
my 2-d design class ended today. the assignments weren't hard but they were poorly explained and i don't think i ever did the best job i could because the direction of the assignemnt was unclear to me. i also felt like we didn't do anything that i learned from. it was all too conceptual. we can't really apply it to our own work if we only work in the conceptual. these tech labs kick my ass. it doesn't seem to matter if i work really hard or just do the work. if i kill myself over it, i get a b. if i work pretty hard i get a c. and most of the tech labs you can't re-do assignments, which i think is major bull shit. how are you suppossed to learn if you can't resubmit your work? it doesn't seem fair to grade work that's been critiqued but not improved. i hate that. plus i like to work out my problems on the assignment that brought up the problem in the first place because the next assignments wil have its own kinks to work out. i just don't feel like i got anything out of this class and i had to do so much tedious work. so i'm frustrated. i wouldn't mind taking this class again, if i was going to learn something.
...be happy about your growth, in which of course you can't take any one with you, and be gentle with those who stay behind; be confident and calm in front of them and don't torment them with your doubts and don't frighten them with your faith or joy, which they wouldn't be able to comprehend. seek out some simple and true feeling of what you have in common with them, which doesn't necessarily have to alter when you yourself change and change again... don't ask for any advice from them and don't expect any understanding; but believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish...
-letters, cont'd
so many artist's biographies talk about unlearning everything they learned in art school.