The New Romantics

The people we traditionally consider to be smartest are those best at some sort of a general math / reasoning ability.

This is not what genius is.

But boredom is when life happens.

"Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden."

- Voltaire

"The Chinese say you need three things for paintings: the hand, the eye and the heart,” says the painter David Hockney. “I think that remark is very, very good. Two won’t do. A good eye and heart is not enough, neither is a good hand and eye.”

The only antidote I've found to the madness of my own brain is to talk to other people and be around other people. Somehow, through conversation and through seeing and being seen, I feel less terrible. I wouldn't say I feel great neccessarily, I just feel less bad.

atomization encourages us to reduce multivariate experiences, often the most important parts of life, to their single most obvious element

Two years later, I’m still asked about them. People want to know: Did they stay on the Luddite path? Or were they dragged back into the tech abyss?

But there is one big reason why a lot of men don’t think they should create—they think their turn to be creative has passed. It was taken by their ancestors, and they misused the privilege. Now they must, in the names of their fathers, be silent.

The role of the artist is to make the revolution irresistible.