How Being Vague Can Make Your Creative Work More Powerful
“When you eliminate a person’s need to infer — when you explain things — you take the mystery out. By doing this, the person experiencing the art uses their min...
“When you eliminate a person’s need to infer — when you explain things — you take the mystery out. By doing this, the person experiencing the art uses their min...
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“One way to conceive of what artists do is to think that they are, in their own way, running advertising campaigns. Not for anything expensive or usually even a...
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