LET YOUR ART BE UGLY!!! LET YOUR WRITING BE BAD!!! DANCE OFFBEAT!!! SING OFF KEY!!! LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO LET YOUR FEAR OF NOT BEING GOOD ENOUGH PREVENT YOU FROM LEARNING AND ENJOYING NEW THINGS!!!
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I think everything in life is art. What you do. How you dress. The way you love someone, and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in, and all your dreams. The way you drink your tea. How you decorate your home. Or party. Your grocery list. The food you make. How your writing looks. And the way you feel. Life is art.
Helena Bonham Carter (via bl-ossomed)
“Art and love are the same thing: It’s the process of seeing yourself in things that are not you.”
— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story
(via books-n-quotes)
“Vincent van Gogh has been anointed–and travestied–as the ideal of the modern artist, even by those for whom art, modern or otherwise, is at best a diversion and at worst a scam. Everybody knows about the cutting of his ear, or cracks cruel jokes about it. His name is as famous as that of Picasso, but Picasso has been mythologized as a monster of control, whereas van Gogh, it is agreed, lay at the mercy of the uncontrollable. In his later years, he suffered acute seizures, which have since been ascribed to a number of causes, including epilepsy, syphilis, and schizophrenia. The fact of that suffering, however, is not in doubt, and posterity has both pitied him for his exhausting mental fight and venerated the result; without the fighting, we believe, we would not have the art. The ancient notion of creativity as a species of divine madness is reborn, above all, in van Gogh.”
— Anthony Lane, “Technicolor Vincent: Why filmmakers love van Gogh” for The New Yorker, November 19 2018
Don’t settle for nice, for pleasant, for familiar. Keep looking until you find something that really moves you, that resonates with your core. And I mean this for people, for interests, for hobbies, for your possessions, clothes, music, books, art. Everything. Curate every aspect of your life, as much as you can. It’s in the things that deeply inspire us that we find ourselves. Surround yourself with truth, and you’ll have built yourself a heaven.
i want to visit art museums with the love of my life, and watch the sunset together on warm spring evenings, and just be so in love!
I’ve mastered the art of pretending to be tired instead of admitting I’m sad
take me to art museums and make out with me
But they said to not touch the masterpieces
Well somebody’s gotta pin the artwork to the wall
Honestly the best piece of advice I can give to younger girls trying to figure life out is to completely ignore men. I’m not being quirky or cute when I say that, I mean it seriously. Ignore men’s judgments of you, ignore their insincere compliments, ignore their half-assed romance. Focus on developing yourself. Practice your art, play sports, do theater, volunteer, spend time with your friends, but do not put substantial effort into pleasing men. They’ll be there for you to pursue when the time comes and if you want to. But nothing will waste your youth more than fighting for male acceptance.
““The only writers who have any peace are the ones who don’t write. And there are some like that. They wallow in a sea of possibilities. To express a thought, you first have to limit it, and that means kill it. Every word I speak robs me of a thousand others, and every line I write means giving up another.””
— Stanisław Lem, “Hospital of the Transfiguration” (via secondwing)
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