The creative process requires a tremendous amount of honesty. Creating art exposes your weaknesses, and you quickly find out what you're not so good at.
While creating what comes from your soul, instinct is all you have. You have to trust your gut and cut out the good opinion of other people.
You are not an artist simply because you can apply oil to a canvas, take a photograph, or play a series of chords - you are an artist because you dare to take people where they have yet to take themselves.
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photos by sean zhao