Here is my favorite quote, so far, from his website:
"don't be so hard on yourself mistakes are good-i think they help use to see
it's so beautiful to see someone who has made something and didn't quite know what they were doing but did it anyway-when you can really see the fire was under their feet and they had to make it or else"
I want that fire to create back. Sometimes I feel a spark here and there but it fizzles out easily.
You can find a few of his pieces on sale at etsy.com by going to www.dannymansmithscrap.etsy.com
3 comments:
I want that fire too!!
Oh wow.
Checked out his entire Web site, from stem to stern.
The deepest part of me that so badly - longingly aching - to cut lose and create and just "be" with my art-making is on the verge of tears. Oddly familiar emotions going on... some distant birth wants to take place in me - but it's always shoved to the back.
Stupid, right?
Not many things in these 42 years have spoken so deeply to me, so directly: Make Your Noise. Shine That Light (you know the one). Stop Being So Afraid.
Thank you... thank you for posting him here. You were right: I like him.
I'm glad you checked it out, collage. I swear, I am finding fear holds me back... fear that whatever I make will be mediocre. And, stress over the fact that i'll feel like whatever I make needs to be something that other people are willing to buy.
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