slog
"you know you can never rest until you've brought truth out of all the distortion and beauty out of all the mess--but it's agony while simultaneously being the most wonderful and rewarding experience in the world--and that's the creative process which so few people understand. it involves an indestructable sort of fidelity, an insane sort of hope, and indescribable sort of, well...it's love, isn't it?!
you can't create without waste and mess and sheer undiluted slog. you can't create without pain. so in the end, every major disaster, every tiny error, every wrong turning, every fragment of discard, everything has meaning.
i give it meaning. i reuse, reshape, recast all that goes wrong so that in the end nothing is wasted and nothing is without significance and nothing ceases to be precious to me."
--character harriet (ceramic artist) in susan howatch's novel series
you can't create without waste and mess and sheer undiluted slog. you can't create without pain. so in the end, every major disaster, every tiny error, every wrong turning, every fragment of discard, everything has meaning.
i give it meaning. i reuse, reshape, recast all that goes wrong so that in the end nothing is wasted and nothing is without significance and nothing ceases to be precious to me."
--character harriet (ceramic artist) in susan howatch's novel series
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