{"id":2899,"date":"2014-06-29T17:09:48","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T21:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/06\/in-spite-of-myself\/"},"modified":"2014-06-29T17:09:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T21:09:48","slug":"in-spite-of-myself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/2014\/06\/in-spite-of-myself\/","title":{"rendered":"In Spite of Myself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Time and again artists, when asked about creativity, describe giving themselves over to an indefinable muse \u2013\u2013 one that leads away from preconceived notions.  Here's an excerpt on that subject from Pablo Picasso:<\/p>\n

Ideas are simply starting points. I can rarely set them down as they come to my mind. As soon as I start to work, others well up in my pen. To know what you\u2019re going to draw, you have to begin drawing\u2026 When I find myself facing a blank page, that\u2019s always going through my head. What I capture in spite of myself interests me more than my own ideas.<\/em><\/p>\n

(thanks Brain Pickings)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Time and again artists, when asked about creativity, describe giving themselves over to an indefinable muse \u2013\u2013 one that leads away from preconceived notions.  Here's an excerpt on that subject from Pablo Picasso: Ideas are simply starting points. I can rarely set them down as they come to my mind. As soon as I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899","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=2899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mohonkimages.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}