Jennis Kang

Where things often go wrong is that artists are very poor; and although they might have a lot of talent, intelligence, and vision, they have to struggle to make money. So day by day, hour by hour, their vision goes downhill. In order to make money, they have to relate with perverted, neurotic people who demand that they go along with their particul

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.

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.

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.

Manson’s law of avoidance on them: The more something threatens your identity, the more you will avoid it.

At the other side of the spectrum from boredom is addiction—not a disengagement but its dark reverse, a pathological degree of repetition or perseverance.