To be an artist was to have failure as your constant bedfellow.
“The verse is supposed to get you hard so the chorus can suck you off.”
“We're all prostitutes if you think about it. The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousness. You sell your body or you sell your mind, and the Cartesian mind/body thing is a fallacy anywa...”
“...there was a natural comorbidity between sexual appetite and sexual jealousy, between the desire to fuck and the desire to kill.”
“The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great...”
“What we do see depends mainly on what we look for. ... In the same field the farmer will notice the crop, the geologists the fossils, botanists the flowers, artists the colouring, sportmen the cove...”
“What we get when we turn pro is we find our power. We find our will and our voice and we find our self-respect. We become who we always were but had, until then, been afraid to embrace and live out.”
“Is there magic in this world? Certainly! But it is not the kind of magic written about in fantasy stories. It is the kind of magic that comes from ideas and the hard work it often takes to make the...”
“We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.”
“A culture of unaccountability is a culture without incentive, and a culture without incentive is the death of critical and creative thinking.”
“Spirituality cannot be an excuse for not making money!!! Just a justification for failure!”
“The end of a relationship is not always a failure. Sometimes all the love in the world is not enough to save something. In these cases, it is not a matter of fault from either person. Some things c...”
“Success and failure will all come to pass like waves, only Nature remains”