Jennis Kang
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Jennis Kang
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)
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.
Brian Christian • The Alignment Problem
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
... See moreChogyam Trungpa • True Perception: The Path of Dharma Art
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
What we can call subclinical OCD is everywhere.
David Adam • The Man Who Couldn't Stop
How do you get from starting small to doing something great? By making successive versions. Great things are almost always made in successive versions. You start with something small and evolve it, and the final version is both cleverer and more ambitious than anything you could have planned.