Listen to the shaman, for he speaks the truth.

@AVARY Yes, but Pixar movies are made for the audience and those are often good art too.

Reminds me of David Lynch's approach. He's radically indifferent to audience reaction and believes that creators must make art to satisfy themselves. True, commerce has its place - being an artist isn't sustainable if it's not profitable, but then, is it still art if it's made to please an audience other than yourself? Incidentally, I saw Beeple post about this today on X, saying he never expected to make money directly from his personal work, making it purely because he loved doing it.

@AVARY I listened to a podcast with a guest musician (can’t recall his name) but he’d spent time with Rick recording and he told him the same thing. You gotta make it for yourself.

@AVARY This makes sense, yes. It’s not that’s Rick’s wrong, but it felt like the whole public guru stint was him commercializing this principle bc organization of thoughts isn’t his fluid intelligence. He might just think in music which isn’t translatable without it being… music.

@AVARY Allen Garfield at The Actors Shelter would say “Do it for yourself and not the Marketplace.” So many great and valuable teachings every class! All Great Artists think alike!

@AVARY doing that is the scariest part of the process, which is why an artist must do it to remain true to themselves and their vision!

@AVARY We’re gonna enter a new age of personal films.

@AVARY Rugerio @AVARY get back to making movies and stop making pussy scented candles.

@AVARY Truth. Pandering fucks up my momentum.

@AVARY Of course that can backfire as well. And has; resulting in a number of unwatchable snoozefests.

@AVARY Rick’s the man. Every musician should listen to him talk about work ethic in the studio.

@AVARY Rick is right. I tell people this same thing when it comes to starting a podcast or writing a book: be your biggest fan and do it for yourself 1st without thinking of profit or an audience. If others dig it, that’s a bonus.

@AVARY Grossly unoriginal. He just repurposes zen, which he didn't invent, has no artistic or creative talent, except for extracting fees from artists. lol

@AVARY I don't know who that is but I agree with him. I've written two books the same way and they're highly rated on Amazon.

@AVARY We all realize he gets high off of his own farts and he’s his own biggest fan. Yay Rick Rubin. 🙄🥸

@AVARY Big movies will always be commercial transactions. Independent distributors are not interested in movies that don't have a commercial appeal either. Creativity is not the problem. Connecting the art to the public is, and will always be through commerce.

@AVARY That is genuinely healthy, forward and outward acting, non-nullifying creative behavior. The other blind artistic failure here described almost correlates to mental illnesses or foundational life issues within its own creators, vs the alternative–pure and resound self-expression.

@AVARY Too many chud replies to the original post dissing Rubin.

@AVARY Damn that’s poignant. I agree

@AVARY Yea spike Milligan only made whatever made him laugh and if nobody else did he didn't care.

@AVARY He's absolutely correct.

@AVARY Always listen to him.

@AVARY This is such a great clip