From poet David Kirby, who will be participating in a cross-disciplinary conference on creativity around these parts later this week:
I tell my own students that art is the deliberate transformed by the accidental, that you pursue your plan doggedly while staying open to the startling revelations that can kick your work up to a new level.
“The deliberate transformed by the accidental”: I like it.
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* Post title shamelessly cribbed from Froog. For simplicity and directness, it just can’t be improved upon (although I don’t plan to steal it for good!).
