Lorraine Teixeira

I wanted to build something that was my own, something I could point to and say: I made that. It was the only way I saw to make life meaningful.

“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”

— Bob Dylan

So the point is to take the work seriously but you don’t take yourself too seriously. There’s a riff about this in Stephen Pressfield’s War of Art, where he talks about how amateurs are too precious with their work: “The professional has learned, however, that too much love can be a bad thing. Too much love can make him choke. The seeming

On a good day, this is the quintessential nature of design: to craft symbols, stories, and artifacts that ultimately shape hearts and minds — that shape us — for the better.

Brian Collins • Design is Enchantment

Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth.

You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.

Louise Erdrich • The Painted Drum

You cannot create results. You can only create conditions in which something might happen.

Anne Bogart

I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m . of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.

We forget all too soon

Perhaps the most hopeful thing about being alive is that we are never finished and complete. Perhaps the most exasperating is that we are never entirely new.

Maria Popova • The 8 Inner Conflicts That Shape Who We Are