{"id":2821,"date":"2016-07-31T11:14:43","date_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2016\/07\/get-to-work\/"},"modified":"2016-07-31T11:14:43","modified_gmt":"2016-07-31T15:14:43","slug":"get-to-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2016\/07\/get-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Get To Work…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who\u2019ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.<\/em>
If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to do an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself.<\/em><\/p>\n

…Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that\u2019s almost never the case.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

                                                                                                                                                   \u2014 Chuck Close<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cThe advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who\u2019ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work.If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}