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Do you want to create?
Then be obsessive.
Be happy enough for him to be miserable.
Stay awake when your body is begging to sleep.
Work when there is no audience, no deadline, and no applause.
Because the truth is: the work of art you admire, the one that changes you, is not the product of a single moment of brilliance.
It was the product of tens of thousands of invisible hours, hundreds of ruined drafts, and decisions made in the dark with no guarantee of light.
You can learn the technique. You can analyze great works. You can imitate, combine, and rearrange.
But if you don’t shed blood for it, if you remain soft enough to let your failures shape you, you will never achieve what is important.
Creativity is not pure.
It is a sacred chaos.
When you feel something alive inside, you’ll know it’s getting closer.
Not an answer, a heartbeat.
A vibration.
A beginning.
Sometimes you don’t find the idea; you become the person who can find the idea.
This is the real process.
And if you’re not in love with this process,
if this process does not make you obsessive
then you don’t belong here.
Not yet.