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He was saying he learned to prioritize business over ego in art. That you should treat it as a job rather than an advertisement for how cool you are, and that the years of work it takes to act on that spark of inspiration, and the 10 years of developing skills required to even do that in the first place, are far more important than the inspiration itself
I don't agree really, I think even an "advertisement for how cool you are" has more value than something you only see as a product, but both are vapid. Something Robert Eggers said in an interview comes to mind
>"This sounds super uber-precious, but I think it’s hard to do this kind of creative work in a modern secular society because it becomes all about your ego and yourself,” Eggers said. “And I am envious — this is the horrible part — I’m envious of medieval craftsmen who are doing the work for God. And that becomes a way to … you get to be creative to celebrate something else. And also, you’re censoring yourself because it’s not about like me, me, me, me, me, me. So you say, ‘Oh, I got to rein that back because that’s not what this altar piece needs to be.’ Any worldview where everything around them is full of meaning is exciting to me, because we live in such a tiresome, lame, commercial culture now.”
