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“Devemos agradecer por vivermos numa sociedade em que o valor individual é em função de qualquer coisa de válido – como o número de likes na última publicação no Facebook. Um momento… O que eu queria dizer é que devemos agradecer o facto de vivermos numa sociedade que valoriza todos por igual. Merda. Ainda não está bem. O que eu queria dizer era: devemos estar gratos por vivermos numa sociedade que afirma que valoriza todos por igual.”
― Scott Hershovitz, Como Educar Um Filósofo

“find a way to make your feelings make sense; then, so will everything else.”
― Kim Rashidi, Fortunate: Tarot Poetry

“WE HAVE BEEN TAUGHT THAT IN ORDER TO CREATE STUFF, WE NEED PERMISSION Even now, as successful as I’ve ever been, I can’t shake that little voice that tells me I am nothing without external permission, that I need to be picked and chosen to do something as audacious as making things that weren’t there before. This impulse to wait for permission is built into our entire culture. In offices and factories and shops, we nearly always have a superior we defer to for permission. As children we needed parental approval. In our schools we had teachers. So it’s not surprising that in our creative life, many of us want someone to tell us that, yes, we are valid, yes, we are allowed. Whether the permission is patronage from the rich, validation from a partner, being offered a contract from a publishing house, or being plucked from obscurity by a casting agent, we consciously or subconsciously believe that if we’re meant to do this, someone with authority will let us know. It also makes sense on a more personal and emotional level that we wait for permission to create because it takes tremendous courage to alchemise parts of our internal world into something external and tangible. Of course we’d feel a little better about making art if someone had told us we were allowed to. It’s hard to pick yourself. It’s vulnerable, scary, we haven’t been taught how. In fact, we have been actively discouraged by the systems we live in. That’s why we have so many artists waiting in the wings, waiting to create but never starting, waiting for life to begin. You need to learn to pick yourself first or else you will always be waiting.”
― Amie McNee, We Need Your Art: Stop F*cking Around and Make Something

“Enjoying art with other people is extremely positive for our mental health.”
― Amie McNee, We Need Your Art: Stop F*cking Around and Make Something