Alexandra

“30% of an artist’s life is devoted to pretending you like your own ideas
10% is finding enjoyment in making huge irreparable mistakes
6% is going along with other people’s interpretations of your art
5% is believing your own bullshit even as you’re in the process of making it up
10% is trying to view your art from your current love interest’s perspective
9% is keeping a journal by your bed
5% is remembering the feeling of being loudly dissed by the person you most idolized in third grade
5% is finding something obscure to reference constantly
20% is ignoring the people who like your work”
― Chelsea Martin, Tell Me I'm An Artist

“While I wait for the police to come, I call Russell to confess what happened. He is my favorite person, the one who somehow sees me both as I want to be seen and as I actually am, the one whose belief in me over the years has been the most earned (he is not my parent), the most pure (he is not my boyfriend), and the most forgiving (he is my friend).”
― Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

“Time only pushes wounds aside. Regular life becomes insistent and crowds out the loss. Usually, this is a good thing. So much of healing is the recognition that not all your tissue got damaged in the accident.”
― Sloane Crosley, Grief Is for People

“Of all the great works that we can experience, nature is the most absolute and enduring. We can witness it change through the seasons. We can see it in the mountains, the oceans, the deserts, and the forest. We can watch the changes of the moon each night, and the relationship between the moon and the stars.”
― Rick Rubin, The Creative Act: A Way of Being