Authenticity

What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?

There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is... See more

andrea

When you’re losing a game you don’t even want to play, or forcing a fit into a form you don’t want to be in, the best thing to do is to stop playing and go find your shape.

Cortney Cassidy • A soft manifesto

sari

Honesty is a strange aesthetic criterion to prioritize. Great confessional art was never about accurately representing reality, but about giving voice to the process of experiencing it—how we feel, not what we’re feeling, making lucid that which usually eludes full expression.

Dirt • Dirt: The Decay of Lying...

Keely Adler

Alara

Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.

Robert Greene twitter.com

andrea

Make stuff only you can make. Stuff that makes you sigh in resignation after waiting for someone else to make happen so you can enjoy it, and realizing that’s never going to happen so you have to get off the couch and do it yourself

Carmen • Tweet

sari

The more beautiful internet our hearts know is possible

rob hardy ungated.media

sari

Donald Glover in an interview with The New Yorker: “Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”

phoebe

llili

Funeral inspo. But also life inspiration. Hold space for inconveniences. Show up raw. Give space to the ugly versions of you so they can live and die.

The original poem this piece is built on is called ‘Tract’ - written by William Carlos William (whose work was a muse for the film Paterson).