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Ben Okri — Letters to a Young Creator

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Letters to a Young Creator is a collection of honest perspectives on what it takes to make something great, written by people who have done it before. Featuring Tim Cook, Jony Ive, Bob Iger, Paola Antonelli, Jon M. Chu, Es Devlin, and many, many more.

Dear Young Artist, The world changes every day, but one thing ought to remain the same. You are called or you called yourself to enrich the world, to question it, to redream it, to challenge it and to lift it. Sometimes you have to tear down to renew. You have chosen the most challenging and the most blessed path of all—challenging because the way of art, like the way of the warrior, is a rigorous one. You are either upholding what has gone before or you are expanding the possibilities of your art. To uphold is to surrender to the laws that make that art, and this requires constant…

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