"Some people try to squeeze ideas out as if they were constipated, sitting on a toilet seat, glancing occasionally at the toilet tissue, wishing something would come through. When artists do that, the result is very meek and very technical. They always refer back to technicalities and try to produce something out of that --- but they don't really feel good about the whole thing at all. What we are talking about here is the opposite of that. It is not exactly like developing diarrhea, but there is some kind of free flow, in which you have the confidence that you can actually produce ideas."
Page 16, "True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art" by Chögyam Trungpa
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