Sitting in your studio staring at a wall, waiting for some divine flash of brilliance? Forget it. That moment rarely comes. And when it does, it’s usually because you’ve lived enough outside to recognise it.
Get out. Walk the streets. Listen to music that confuses you. Eat food that overwhelms you. Travel. Talk to strangers. Sit in silence in a city you don’t know. Do everything but art—and watch what it does to your art.
Being an artist isn’t about locking yourself in a room and brooding. It’s about showing up with eyes wide open. Observing. Feeling. Collapsing borders between life and practice. Because that’s where the real material is.
Plain and simple—your next breakthrough probably won’t happen in front of a canvas. It’ll happen when you’re living like you mean it.