Making your Life as an Artist by Andrew Simonet
"You already have the skills you need to build a beautiful, sustainable life."
"Earning money from your work feels great, but it doesn't make you a real artist... Nothing makes you a real artist except your devotion to making."
"Let's focus on our skills and what we have to offer, instead of obsessing over our needs and what we lack."
"Regardless of how hard one tried to create that distance through self-conscious reflection, one is always departing from that same unknown abyss - the window of experience that can only look out but never in. And so we are tempted to disbelieve the face exists because we can never rip out our eyes and look upon it as a scientific object; or maybe we are simply frightened that behind the veiled abyss our consciousness departs from rests a Face not wholly our own. A Face untamable..."
"Earning money from your work feels great, but it doesn't make you a real artist... Nothing makes you a real artist except your devotion to making."
"Let's focus on our skills and what we have to offer, instead of obsessing over our needs and what we lack."
"Regardless of how hard one tried to create that distance through self-conscious reflection, one is always departing from that same unknown abyss - the window of experience that can only look out but never in. And so we are tempted to disbelieve the face exists because we can never rip out our eyes and look upon it as a scientific object; or maybe we are simply frightened that behind the veiled abyss our consciousness departs from rests a Face not wholly our own. A Face untamable..."