Recorded · NPR · 2012
It's just, I would say, faith. I had very clear visions of me being a champion.
The Creative Independent
put to working artists
Originally asked
The Creative Independent, to working artists, its interview series
A repeated Creative Independent tension, asked as inspiration, muse, discipline, ritual, or the requirement to show up.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
4 questions, 159 answers to them so far. Every one of them is asked here as itself, with the format it came from on the page. Nobody answers as anybody else. 159 of the answers are quoted from interviews in The Creative Independent, Academy of Achievement and elsewhere, each shown with its source. The people quoted did not answer on FLAPSS; members answer the same questions as themselves, and their answers are kept apart from the quotations.
Do you rely more on inspiration or discipline to make your work?
Palaeoanthropologist; discovered the Lucy skeleton in Ethiopia
Recorded · Academy of Achievement · 1991
I agree with him, essentially, 100 percent. One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.
Singer-songwriter and poet; Mercury Prize winner
Recorded · The Talks · 2021
I do, but I never force it out of myself.
Every question in this set
- Do you rely more on inspiration or discipline to make your work? 27
- How do you tell when a piece of work is done? 67
- What do you do when you feel creatively stuck? 63
- How do you balance creative work with everything else in your life? 2
The number is how many answers are on the record here. A dash means nobody has answered it yet, which is an opening rather than a gap.