This tends to be true for all things in my life.
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Everything I’ve ever let go of had claw marks on it.
We’re all just pointing fingers & in the end it’s no one’s fault.
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Stop being a follower.
I feel very strongly that at no point in any person’s life should they follow by example. Every child should be taught to question what they’re told and push their thought process to prove if someone else’s words are really true. You will never learn anything by blindly following any advice you’re given or listening to someone explain to you how to perform a task without asking questions.
This isn’t to say you should never listen to authority figures. That is clearly not going to work out for you. But, in order to grow or learn, you need to ask questions. You need to push your brain to function past “this is what I was told to do and so this is how I will be doing it forever”. Chances are, if you really think something through, you can find a more efficient and effective way to perform throughout your day. And isn’t that really the best way to live your life?
I feel like we live in a world where no one wants to push themselves. Everyone wants to just survive and get it over with and the act of reaching outside of the box is just the most terrifying thing. Get over it. Your life is going to be so much more enjoyable if you actually give deep thought a chance.
Use your brain. Stop just listening to what you’re told. Do your research. Ask questions. Be skeptical. Try a different routine. Do new things.
Go.
Be a thinking adult who doesn’t do what they’re told.
Don’t follow by example but instead lead the world by introducing new ideas.
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This is everything I believe in.
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I want to hear raucous music, to see faces, to brush against bodies, to drink fiery Bénédictine. Beautiful women and handsome men arouse fierce desires in me. I want to dance. I want drugs. I want to know perverse people, to be intimate with them. I never look at naïve faces. I want to bite into life, and to be torn by it.
— Anaïs Nin (via toutematendresse)
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“People ask why there are so few female artists who succeed. It’s because women are not ready to sacrifice as much as men. Women want a man, they want a family, they want to have children, they want to be loved, and to be an artist. And they can’t; it’s impossible.”
- Marina Abramovic, in Bazaar, March 2012
(I read that this morning and have been thinking about it all day. Agree? Disagree? In my heart, I also cannot see all those things co-existing in one life, but I know it’s an unfashionable view. I can also forsee criticism for pairing that statement with this image, but I find this 1974 photo really captivating.)
In related news, see my co-Interviews Editor Ross Simonini’s wonderful interview with Abramovic here on his website.
- Sheila Heti
1000reasonsnottostartmakingart :
I want a woman, I want a family, I want to have children, I want to be loved, and to be an artist.
So is this because I cannot sacrifice? Maybe it is obvious that I feel the answer is yes. I have so much ideas for paintings/ performances that I do not do because i think what if the kids find out? These are works I think are good and important but that I am not really proud of. That I do not/ won’t go around advertising. Because they’re complex. because they’re as much about me experimenting and finding my identity and myself as they are about the art. So… they are about risk, about sacrifice.
What to do?
I can be all of those things, I want to be all of these things. Artist, mom, wife, lover, etc… I want the utopia of ‘art for the sake of it’, & not success as my main goal, but fulfillment.
In this new career path, I don’t want to be the best, famous, successful. I want to be successful in being happy.
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The weather is your boyfriend on a Saturday, stay in bed & you could be so lonely…
Life in LA, by Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti.
Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time. To journey is to be born and die each minute…All the elements of life are in constant flight from us, with darkness and clarity intermingled, the vision and the eclipse; we look and hasten, reaching out our hands to clutch; every happening is a bend in the road…and suddenly we have grown old. We have a sense of shock and gathering darkness; ahead is a black doorway; the life that bore us is a flagging horse, and a veiled stranger is waiting in the shadows to unharness it.
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables (via liquidnight)
There will be days I can’t stand to be touched & days I won’t let you leave my bed. But I will never not want you. Never again. You have to know that now, before we begin. If you let me have you, I will need you always.
— I can relate.
Those who restrain their desires, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
— William Blake (via claytoncubitt)