Progress
Words that resonated with me as I've been feeling stuck lately.
From Austin Kleon’s newsletter:
There’s a part in Duncan Hannah’s diary when David Hockney points at a contemporary painting and says, “If art really progressed, then that would be better than a Caravaggio.”
David Byrne (also once an art student) has said the same — “Presuming that there is such a thing as ‘progress’ when it comes to music… is typical of the high self-regard of those who live in the present.”
Linear progress.
Abandon the notion.
More like a spiral.
