Avoidance
Some artists identify so closely with their own work that were they to cease producing, they fear they would be nothing — that they would cease existing.
David Bayles, Ted Orland • Art & Fear: Observations on the Perils (and Rewards) of Artmaking
Art constitutively thwarts immediacy, urgency, and utility; its most direct use rests in this indirection—but today’s immediatist art aspires to void itself, and theory has been following in its wake.
Anna Kornbluh • Immediacy
The tendency of people with ADD is to impulsively avoid painful experiences, which makes it much less likely for them to maintain focus on an area in which they have no natural gift. Therefore, these deficits are likely to be amplified instead of corrected.
Don Kerson • Getting Unstuck; Unravelling the Knot of Depression Attention and Trauma
Manson’s law of avoidance on them: The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.
Mark Manson • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life (Mark Manson Collection Book 1)
The thing about avoidance is that it’s not a fear of commitment point blank so much as it’s an emotional anesthetizing of certain parts of the self that are required for deep self knowledge, & deep self knowledge is necessary for choosing compatible partners.
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