Yes, I agree completely. I remember when I started giving my big chunks of studio time the same status as the other responsibilities in my life. It was hard to say no to so many things that I wanted to say yes to, but they nibbled at the expanses of time that I needed to really come into relationship with the work I was trying to do. It does make all the difference!
The best advice I ever got was from a spiritual director, when I didn't have enough space in my life (by which I mean TIME) for art. She said art takes a different kind of space (TIME) -- it can't happen between 2-4 on a Tuesday between other errands, at least it can't happen that way for ME. So I rearranged my life -- by saying NO to almost everything else -- to make space-time for my art ... and that, as Robert Frost would say, has made all the difference.
Yes, I agree completely. I remember when I started giving my big chunks of studio time the same status as the other responsibilities in my life. It was hard to say no to so many things that I wanted to say yes to, but they nibbled at the expanses of time that I needed to really come into relationship with the work I was trying to do. It does make all the difference!
The best advice I ever got was from a spiritual director, when I didn't have enough space in my life (by which I mean TIME) for art. She said art takes a different kind of space (TIME) -- it can't happen between 2-4 on a Tuesday between other errands, at least it can't happen that way for ME. So I rearranged my life -- by saying NO to almost everything else -- to make space-time for my art ... and that, as Robert Frost would say, has made all the difference.