“You know when you’re walking in the woods on a dark night…and you see a light shining far off in the distance…and you think to yourself: even though I’m tired and it’s dark and the branches are scratching my face…everything is gonna be okay…because I have that light? And I’ll get there eventually? Well, I work–you know this–I work harder than anyone else in this county. I mean, I’m beaten down, Sonya, I suffer unbearably…but I have no light in the distance. I can’t see anything up ahead. I no longer expect anything of myself and I don’t think I’m capable of really loving people.” -Astrov to Sonya in Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov (translated by Annie Baker)
Spock: I find your arguments strewn with gaping defects in logic.
McCoy: Maybe, but you can’t evaluate a man by logic alone. –Star Trek
Belief in yourself and your art is often not logical. Especially at the outset when you have no evidence that the thing you’re passionate about is something that you can actually manifest. You have no light in the distance.
There are a million “logical” reasons to just not do it. To not try.
But is art really about logic? Because so much great art, the kind that stays with you, comes from that messy, irrational, dream-like subconscious.
Go make your illogical art.
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