“I think the biggest obstacle for people with their creativity is that they feel they have to sit down and create this finished, polished product. Especially nowadays, it’s so easy to have a library of two thousand CDs, books and records. So many things. We’re used to having all of these finished works of art in our life that seem to arise out of nothing. I think that so much of the creative process is a fragmentary one, and then it’s about just allowing your intuition to put it together for you. It’s funny how you create something and you think you’re going in a million different directions, and then the thing you end up with is the thing that you wanted to create your whole life, but you’re just as surprised by it as anybody else.”
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Jeff Mangum (x)
Wow, I’ve never seen it articulated before, but this is so true of me. I mean, I definitely remember spending hundreds of hours on Four Corners, and all the novels I have in my drawer, but with Four Corners in particular I still go ‘Hey, wait, where did that come from??’
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