The main virtue of the first sketch is that it breaks the blank page.

“What we produce when we do will be bad, or at least not as good as it will become. This is natural. We must learn to be at ease with it…Almost nothing we create will be good the first time. It will seldom be bad. It will probably be a dull shade of average. The main virtue of the first sketch is that it breaks the blank page. 

And, somehow, long after the beginning and far into an endless middle, something takes shape. After the tenth prototype, the hundredth experiment, or the thousandth page, there is enough material to enable selection. All that clay thrown on the wheel has the potential to be more than new. It has the potential to be good.”

~from the book, How to Fly a Horse (one of the books I read in 2015)

The best line here is: The main virtue of the first sketch is that it breaks the blank page.

This is why my blog is titled, Begin the Begin. I’ve talked about this concept a few times on this blog, but to sum it up:

Everyone thinks that the hardest part of creating something is that they won’t have the best idea, or they won’t be good at it, or <insert a hundred other reasons>. But the reality is that the hardest part of creating anything is actually starting the process. Most people never get a chance to fail because they never start. 

Begin the begin!

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