“I don't know why people expect art to make sense. They accept the fact that life doesn't make sense.”
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“A creative life is an amplified life. It’s a bigger life, a happier life, an expanded life, and a hell of a lot more interesting life. Living in this manner—continually and stubbornly bringing forth the jewels that are hidden within you—is a fine art, in and of itself.”
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
― Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
“In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that contradicts nature.”
― Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
― Cabinet of Curiosities: My Notebooks, Collections, and Other Obsessions
“I don't think there is life beyond death, I don't. But I do believe that we get this clarity in the last minute of our life. The titles we achieved, the honors we managed, they all vanish. You are left alone with you and your deeds and the things you didn't do. And that moment of clarity gives you either peace or the most tremendous fear, because you finally have no cover, and you finally realize exactly who you are.”
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