Authenticity
What does it mean for something to be 'authentic'?
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Authenticity
Always stick to what makes you weird, odd, strange, different. That’s your source of power.
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Donald Glover in an interview with The New Yorker: “Authenticity is the journey of figuring out who you are through what you make.”
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...
learning how to write was very much like learning how to live: it all begins by listening to your inner voice and honoring it.
Living is as much a craft as is writing. There are rules and frameworks one can follow, but ultimately, one must define and cultivate one’s own style.
Living is as much a craft as is writing. There are rules and frameworks one can follow, but ultimately, one must define and cultivate one’s own style.
Ashley Zhang • Surrender control over your stories
“I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.”
–Frank Ghery
I'd either drive people away or they'd come in closer to see what it was all about. There was no in between.
-Bob Dylan