Matthew Brannon famous quotes

I've often been given the career advice to not wear too many hats, which, of course, has just encouraged me to wear other hats, such as being a writer, being a curator, or just doing anything outside of the definition of an artist.
-- Matthew Brannon

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My definition of art is whatever an artist calls art. Us speaking could be an artwork, us sitting in the near-dark in your kitchen beside the dirty dishes and smoking, me thinking of what to say next.
-- Matthew Brannon

#Art #Dirty #Dark

Making your bed could be a piece of art, and writing a book could be a piece of art. You could also write a book that's not a piece of art, but that is a book, and it could be a book that was written by an artist.
-- Matthew Brannon

#Art #Book #Writing

People are disappointed if you're not entertaining and to be entertaining often means to be drunk.
-- Matthew Brannon

#Mean #People #Drunk

I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.

The more an artist works the more there is to do.

As an artist I would like to eliminate the symbolic pretty much, for black is interesting not as a color but as a non-color and as the absence of color.

Painting cannot be the only activity of a mature artist.

I’d recommend learning to accept rejection. Become friends with rejection. Be nice to rejection, because it’s a huge part of being a writer, no matter where you are in your career.

The first part of my career, how I was paying the bills was commercials. I was just doing tons of commercials.

You've just got to give yourself time - that's good advice I think. Give yourself time to figure out what you're good at and what you're not good at.

When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good advice, ignore them both.

Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated