Thought provoking

years ago someone suggested using the word devotion instead of discipline and I swear it’s the only reason I am so committed to the things that I love ~ bc devotion is an act of love ~ while discipline feels like an act of force

if you kill a cockroach you are a hero, if you kill a butterfly, you are evil. morals have aesthetic criteria. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

As a younger man, I always had a "data over feelings" view of the world, but after 15+ years of performing analytical testing, seeing data manipulated in every possible direction to fit personal biases and agendas, I now view feelings as the only thing that really matters.

The thing you are deeply yearning to create is told to you in all the subtle ways other people's artwork slightly misses the mark