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“Don't kiss me if you're afraid of thunder. My life is a storm.”
Anita Krizzan

Andy Warhol
“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
Andy Warhol

Sheila Heti
“We tried not to smile, for smiling only encourages men to bore you and waste your time.”
Sheila Heti, How Should a Person Be?
tags: men, smile

“Art is such an action. It is a kindred form of action to idealism. They are both expressions of the same drive, and the man who fails to fulfill this urge in one form or another is as guilty of escapism as the one who fails to occupy himself with the satisfaction of bodily needs. In fact, the man who spends his entire life turning the wheels of industry so that he has neither time nor energy to occupy himself with any other needs of his human organism is by far a greater escapist than the one who developed his art. For the man who develops his art does make adjustments to his physical needs. He understands that man must have bread to live, while the other cannot understand that you cannot live by bread alone.”
Mark Rothko, The Artist's Reality: Philosophies of Art

Sheila Heti
“There is something threatening about a woman who is not occupied with children. There is something at-loose-ends feeling about such a woman. What is she going to do instead? What sort of trouble will she make?”
Sheila Heti, Motherhood

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