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Monday, January 10, 2011

If you want to live your life in a creative way...

The more I go through life, the more I realize I don't have much in common with most people. It's a hard thing to realize. Also finding that others whom I'd like to be around more and have more to do with are harder to--  how do I phrase this properly? fuck it.--it's harder to weasel my way in.


Where my like-minded babies at?


"If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have to be willing to take whatever you’ve done and whoever you were and throw them away. What are we, anyway? Most of what we think we are is just a collection of likes and dislikes, habits, patterns. At the core of what we are is our values, and what decisions and actions we make reflect those values. That is why it’s hard doing interviews and being visible: As you are growing and changing, the more the outside world tries to reinforce an image of you that it thinks you are, the harder it is to continue to be an artist, which is why a lot of times, artists have to go, “Bye. I have to go. I’m going crazy and I’m getting out of here.” And they go and hibernate somewhere. Maybe later they re-emerge a little differently."-- Steve Jobs, Playboy 1985

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