{"id":1848,"date":"2013-05-31T11:39:57","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/?p=1848"},"modified":"2014-08-19T20:07:30","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T00:07:30","slug":"disinclination-be-damned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/archives\/1848","title":{"rendered":"Disinclination be damned"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cWe must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can master their disinclination.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Like most collage artists, I usually don\u2019t know immediately if what I\u2019m producing \u201cworks.\u201d Nevertheless, one has to buy into one\u2019s process and trust that fruit is born through \u201cstick-to-itiveness.\u201d With diligence and a bit of perspective, it\u2019s always possible to sort out the promising threads of creative direction. When they come into focus, keep moving. When they don\u2019t, keep moving anyway.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dixon_PartnersInCrime.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dixon_PartnersInCrime.jpg\" title=\"Partners In Crime ~ J A Dixon\" width=\"300\" height=\"386\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1849\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dixon_PartnersInCrime.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Dixon_PartnersInCrime-300x386.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-size: 88%; line-height: 133%; margin-top: 409px; margin-bottom: 44px; color: gray; padding-left: 30px;\" align=\"left\"><strong><em>Partners in Crime<\/em><\/strong><br \/>\ncollage miniature by J A Dixon<br \/>\n4.5 x 6.25 inches<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&#038;hosted_button_id=NXEVC4N3J8LQQ\" title=\"BUY NOW through PayPal.\" target=\"_blank\">Purchase this artwork!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe must always work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavoring to meet it half-way, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,1,18,35],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1848"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4254,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1848\/revisions\/4254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xorph.com\/jadixon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}