Sylvie

There was a time when we didn’t make space for kids’ feelings at all — and that didn’t work. But now, in trying to do better, we sometimes let kids’ feelings drive adult decisions. And that doesn’t work either. Both are extremes.

Our job is to hold the middle: to deeply validate our kids’ feelings and hold clear, sturdy boundaries. That’s where kids

Probably the strongest argument for art as the highest aspiration of humanity is that you need to use art to argue about it
- How Artists Make Money and How Money Makes Artists by David Berry

The drive to create still stands outside of money: people will squeeze it into the cracks of their lives, sacrifice comfort or even necessity, fight and claw and carve out time to make something, to share their understanding of the world. They shouldn’t have to, but goddammit, they do.

To make the artists worthy of the money they were paid and the patrons worthy of having the money to dole out, art had to have powerful moral and spiritual implications. This is, in the basest terms, what separates artist from artisan: an artisan can make you a good thing, but an artist will make you a good person. For that, you can justify almost

People keep asking me about AI and I really think how you feel about AI comes down to whether you believe art is about producing things (images, objects, data files, “content”) or about a way of operating in the world as an intellectual, spiritual, and emotional creature.