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Beliefs
"Never confuse movement with action" -
Ernest Hemingway
The Illusion of
Action
A really good writing school
would have you do nothing but read. The only writing exercises would be: look at
this thing you've seen a thousand times before, and describe something you've
never noticed before.
A really good art school
would have you do nothing but look at everything ever done by anybody any good,
and then provide a lab with sufficient tools (and I am adamant about
"sufficient" rather than "the best") with advisors to keep them from cutting
their fingers off. Kind of like how I learned to print. You taught me enough not
to hurt myself, and then let me loose to come up with my own questions, and my
own examinations. Thank you again.
Thus David Lance Goines in this article from
1997, from his fantastic website http://www.goines.net,
which we have reproduced with the kind permission of the author.
David also says:
Everything is incredibly
simple: just do it; but it is incredibly hard to notice what we do not see.
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