and The Mother of all Quotes
Paraphrasing from an early Roseanne episode:
DJ:Mom, was I an accident?
Roseanne:No DJ, you were a surprise.
DJ:What's the difference?
Roseanne:An accident is something that if you had to do it all over again, you wouldn't do, but a surprise is something you didn't even know you wanted until you got it.
I was thinking recently about how this is true with lots of parts of life, and the creative process.
How many times do you have an idea of what the painting, photo, poem, collage or whatever is going to be, only to be surprised by what it actually is?
Embrace the surprise. That's what art's all about.
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