Melanie Levitin

As someone who’s inherently driven to develop an individual perspective on art and style, it can be humbling to find yourself blindly, emoji-heart-eyes feeling someone despite their terrible, rounded hemline shirt.

In our world, the major rule is to get married before you’re too old—and “too old” varies from 25 – 35, depending on where you live. The rule should be “whatever you do, don’t marry the wrong person,” but society frowns much more upon a 37-year-old single person than it does an unhappily married 37-year-old with two children

That feeling of contentment might be one that artists can mistrust, because of the idea that great art is created under tense circumstances. We don’t have as many cultural legends about when happy artists make great art. I think that romanticizing sick artists perpetuates this thing that’s supernegative, especially for women. I want women to feel... See more

Frame failure as an AFOG (Another F*cking Opportunity for Growth).

“Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself” - Miles Davis

Back when I was feeling a imless and lost I used to read and reread something Cheryl Strayed wrote about writing: The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours reading poetry and story collections and novels and dead people’s diaries and wondering... See more

In a world where we are drunk on innovation, and we're always chasing the new thing, the fast thing, the algorithm and the AI of it all, we’ve forgotten the most incredible of things – the old things, the timeline of things, and the sacred ways of creating that are not innovative.