The War of Art

Went into Waterstones to avoid the deluge and buy 'The Art of War' as I won't return my library book otherwise. Except it's the War of Art. So consider this a correction.

The problem with library books is you can't highlight the great comments, such as these from Chapter One, Resistance, Defining the Enemy:

"The best and only thing that one artist can do for another is to serve as an example and an inspiration."

"As artists and professionals it is our obligation to enact our own internal revolution, a private insurrection inside our own skulls. In this uprising we free ourselves from the tyranny of consumer culture."

"Resistance is experienced as fear; the degree of fear equates to the strength of Resistance...if you're paralysed with fear, it's a good sign. It shows you what you have to do."

"It's one thing to lie to ourselves. It's another thing to believe it."