Anastasia Vlasova
@stasvlas
Illustrator and writer.
Anastasia Vlasova
anastasiavlasova.studio
Vincent Van Gogh on the accumulation of small things:
“Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together. The trick is to focus on the first small thing. Starting small is still starting, and small beginnings often lead to extraordinary endings.”
“How you do anything is how you do everything.”
live life with integrity to yourself, both in privacy and in public
Breathe, it takes time. Living is also doing it.
In the 21st century, creative stagnation is aggressively promoted by entertainment and culture businesses.
Are We Living in a Time of Cultural Collapse?
Thinking about cultural and creative stagnation
Most men will not swim before they are able to.” Is that not witty? Naturally, they won't swim! They are born for the solid earth, not for the water. And naturally they wont think. They are made for life, not for thought. Yes, and he who thinks, what’s more, he who makes thought his business, he may go far in it, but he has bartered the solid earth... See more
The flight of the Weird Nerd from academia
"I had so many ideas that I simply wanted to take them out of my head and see them before me.
After that, I could see how they connected with one another and started developing an argument for my article.
I was begging for a space that could give me freedom when I needed to brainstorm and enough structure to turn those ideas into my final
Externalize the ideas in your head, put them on paper, see them in proximity to each other, from afar.
Here we go again. Crying, for the fourth time today, I felt small. My boyfriend looked at me, clearly stable and well, and I felt even smaller. It was hot in my sweatshirt, the one he’d gifted to me. My skin prickled from the inside out. It was 4PM and I’d only eaten a slice of pumpkin bread and half a box of uncooked ravioli. I couldn’t decide
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Living life as a poem, the process of making art