1. collecting
We all have our own treasured collections.
These mental scrapbooks forms our tastes, and our tastes influence our work.
2. Our tastes makes us what we are, but they can also cast a shadow over our own work.
审美很重要
3. Before we’re ready to take the leap of sharing our own work with the world, we can share our tastes in the work of others .
分享你喜爱的东西，他人的作品
Where do you get your inspirations? What sorts of the things do you fill your head with? What do you read? Do you subscribe to anything? What sites do you visit on the Internet? What music do you listen to? What movies do you see? Do you look at art? What do you collect? What’s inside your scrapbook? What do you pin to the cork board above you desk? What do you stick on your refrigerator? Who’s done work that you admire? Who do you steal ideals from? Do you have any heroes? Who do you follow online? Who are the practitioners you look up to in your field?
4. The most ordinary things, the most common and familiar, if we could see them in their true light, would turn out to be the grandest miracles.
5. Don’t feel guilty about the pleasure you take in the thins you enjoy. Celebrate them.
6. Being open and honest about what you like is the best way to connect with people who like those things, too.
单词学习
1. juxtapose: put things together
juxtapose sth with sth
2. precursor: something that happened or existed before something else and influenced its development
+of/to
3. killer: someting or someone that is very difficult, tiring, or boring 棘手的事，
4. ephemera: small cheap things that people use in their ordinary life
