A piece of art paper covered with typewriter keys. A red line connects some of the letters; others are scratched out with silver ink.
Have you tried using random letters? #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes
A piece of dark art paper covered with bicycles. One of the bicycles has been covered over with white ink.
"Look at all those other people going places!
Is there any reason you shouldn't hop on and go, too?
#MakeTheThingThatIsNot #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes
Art paper that looks like an old catalog listing with white lettering: “You have hundreds of excuses not to make that thing you want to make. Do not use them.”
You have hundreds of excuses not to make the that thing you want to make. Do not use them. #AbortiveAttempts #MakeTheThingThatIsNot #postcardquotes
In #Lichtenbergianism, we call that #AbortiveAttempts: Make it badly, but make it; fix it later. www.lichtenbergianism.com/abortive-att...
I bet you're smart enough to fix it once you've crapped it out, though. #AbortiveAttempts > #Gestalt > #SuccessiveApproximation
Deliberately set out to create crap — lots of crap. (p. 42) #AbortiveAttempts
One of the biggest mistakes an artist makes is what we call the King of Hearts Fallacy: “Begin at the beginning, and go on until come to the end: then stop.” (p. 41) #AbortiveAttempts
A red circle is superscribed on a vintage drawing of a pomegranate; the circle is “perfect” while the fruit is not. A message: “Where did you get the idea that your circle was supposed to be perfect?”
Plato was not always right. #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes
A piece of dark art paper covered with bicycles. One of the bicycles has been covered over with white ink.
"Look at all those other people going places!
Is there any reason you shouldn't hop on and go, too?
#MakeTheThingThatIsNot #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes
Give yourself permission to fail by labeling each page with #AbortiveAttempts. (p. 42)
A piece of dark art paper covered with bicycles. One of the bicycles has been covered over with white ink.
"Look at all those other people going places!
Is there any reason you shouldn't hop on and go, too?
#MakeTheThingThatIsNot #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes
Here's pro tip: all those false starts and dead ends are not trash. Don't throw them away; they're still perfectly good. (p. 40) #AbortiveAttempts
Give yourself permission to fail by labeling each page with #AbortiveAttempts. (p. 42)
On a white card, a heavy black painted circle with a black dot in the center.
If you could see it, would it be your target? #Gestalt #AbortiveAttempts #postcardquotes
To The Critic: This piece, this drawing, this poem, is going to be *crap*. I am *deliberately* going to put down whatever comes into my head or my fingers and THERE’S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP ME. (p. 36) #AbortiveAttempts
We are only too inclined to believe that if we possess a little talent work must come easily to us. You must exert yourself, man, if you want to do something great. — G.C. Lichtenberg, Notebook D.8 #Lichtenbergianism #LichtenbergianQuotes #AbortiveAttempts
When it’s time to write that essay or compose that song, you don’t have to start at the beginning. Start with the part you know. (p. 41) #AbortiveAttempts
On the right, a perfect rectangle. On the left, a grunge font says, “DON’T MESS THIS UP” with a hand-drawn red arrow pointing into the rectangle.
Don't believe everything you think. #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism
A kraft paper background has a black rectangle glued on to it. The left side of the rectangle has been torn by hand.
Your void is incomplete. You should fix that. #AbortiveAttempts #MakeTheThingThatIsNot #postcardquotes
A piece of dark art paper covered with bicycles. One of the bicycles has been covered over with white ink.
"Look at all those other people going places!
Is there any reason you shouldn't hop on and go, too?
#MakeTheThingThatIsNot #AbortiveAttempts #Lichtenbergianism" #postcardquotes
A collage with various blacked out texts, and some cautions to the artist not to ABANDON the work too soon.
That moment when we're tempted to think our first effort is enough — #TaskAvoidance gives us the distance to apply #Gestalt to what is actually an #AbortiveAttempts, thus proving: #CrasMeliorEst. #Lichtenbergianism #postcardquotes
Deliberately set out to create crap — lots of crap. (p. 42) #AbortiveAttempts
A self-portrait by Howard Finster with this message painted on it: “I began painting pictures in Jan 1976 without any training. This is my painting. A person don’t know what he can do unless he tries. Trying things is the answer to your talent.”
Trying things is the answer to your talent. — Howard Finster #MakeTheThingThatIsNot #AbortiveAttempts
A brocade background with a collage. The main figure is a vintage boy whose head has been replaced with a primitive mask. He is surrounded by religious icons, and affixed to the card is a web of golden wire leading from the boy’s head to the icons.
No matter where the golden threads of your IDEAS come from, they must LEAVE YOUR HEAD to become art. #AbortiveAttempts #postcardquotes
Plan if you must, but be aware that art has ideas of its own. (p. 42) #AbortiveAttempts
You can always go back and fix it. (p. 42) #AbortiveAttempts
Give yourself permission to fail by labeling each page with #AbortiveAttempts. (p. 42)
