"I Hate Myself a Lot Less" with Maira Kalman
70 Over 70
It Was Said, Season 2
Everybody makes things that are bad. What do you do with the bad things? You throw it up and throw it away. There isn't a person you look up to on the planet who doesn't do bad work some of the time. Has it gotten easier to just tear it up and forget about it? Probably. I think that I'm enjoying throwing things away more than I used to. Now I'm imagining you like drawing something and being like, oh, look at that. It's terrible. Great. When I think things are bad, I'm not jubilant. Because I do want to do what I consider to be good work... And so I don't lose heart.
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