If you imitate a person you admire, the best you...

If you imitate a person you admire, the best you can possibly hope for is to become a bad imitation of the person you admire. What you need to do instead is to locate the same level of inventiveness as the person you admire, and apply it to a new domain.

Nice quote from Donald Judd via the Jonathan Harris lecture that’s floating around.

Jonathan Harris . World Building in a Crazy World . Imitation

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Artists (in the generic sense of “creative people”) are so frequently the worst-informed people about any creative...
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