Unbearable Creativity & Terrible Beauty

“To achieve greatness, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time”
Leonard Bernstein

To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time. – Leonard Bernstein

I do not have time for things that have no soul.

—Charles Bukowski

"I don't need time. What I need is a deadline." — Duke Ellington

We are so obsessed with seeing if AI can do the things we do, but the real potential is things humans are in capable of. What can’t you do that is now possible? 

It is easy to tell how you are doing in life. When you go outside, how beautiful is the flower? That is how you know.

– Brianna Wiest

“Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit - all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided. It’s the sound of failure: so much modern art is the sound of things going out of cont

"If no art makes you feel anything, make your own art and feel something"

- Jenna Marbles (I think)

The aggressive cynicism of hipster responses to popularity reveal how deeply the hipster identity was situated within the authenticity paradigm. Hipsters clearly experienced a loss of value whenever something they liked entered the realm of mainstream pop culture.

From after authenticity by subpixel.space

“Solitude is for me a fount of healing which makes my life worth living. Talking is often a torment for me, and I need many days of silence to recover from the futility of words.”

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

—C. G. Jung