This pops up in the quote box from time to time and I always re-read it a couple times to re-cement it to my brain. Must have been time, because there it was today, waiting for me.

The mind can be a noisy and cluttered place that can drown out the heart. Sifting through a maze of standards and frameworks for the visual arts could add to the noise and distract from the experience. Beginning with the rules or the words to create the art can lead to a dead end and muddy the search for what genuinely touches the artist. It’s easy to get caught up in the verbiage trying to get it right. I offer this caution as a reminder that making and creating **are** the real thing, the words that describe them are secondary.
– Corita Kent’s Rules & Hints for Students and Teachers

AKA – Stop yammering about it and just do it. Stop trying to define it and just do it. Stop worrying about differentiating yourself from other people and just keep doing it. Don’t do it because it’s something. Do it because you must do it. Not doing it isn’t an option. Stop looking around and feeling superior because other people aren’t doing it and don’t feel inferior because what you’re doing is something else. Just do the work. That’s all you can do, all any of us can do and at the end, it’s all that matters.