Andrea Zittel • Andrea Zittel, "These Things I Know for Sure"

The point of leading a free life—both individually and collectively—is not to transcend the realm of necessity but to be able to negotiate its relation to the realm of freedom.

I found that when you have all the freedom in the world… It becomes boring. It makes you feel anxious. It’s meh. My conclusion? True freedom isn’t about doing nothing or doing everything. True freedom is about choice. The choice to have focus in your life. To welcome challenges. To have crazy highs and stressful lows. To have godly adventures. To f

Ultimately, the most meaningful freedom in your life comes from your commitments, the things in life for which you have chosen to sacrifice.

Constraints can be liberating. When you're doing creative work, the total space of all possibilities is so vast that it’s unworkable. You have to carve off one tiny little sector, and think inside the box. The same is true when you zoom out to the scale of an entire life, but this is not obvious until all the constraints are removed: you don’t know

When we place limitations and boundaries around something we care about, it isn’t meant to be a prison that keeps us stuck or stagnant. It is to create a paradoxical freedom which allows us, through restraint, to fully explore the relationship, the craft, or the experience in all its subtle dimensions. Commitment in these terms is not an obligation