YOUR JOB AS AN ARTIST.

“Your job as an artist is to create meaning, create beauty, create transformative experience. You are an agent of culture, not a functionary of the social order.

Believe you are doing something meaningful every time you create a work of art. Everything you write, reflecting what is true. Everything you shape, reflecting your way of seeing. Everything you film or perform, brimming with the life in your heart and mind. Each of these is its own butterfly in the Amazon, no matter how insignificant you think its impact. You cannot know down the channels of time what it will touch or how it will transform the world.”

: Susan Dirende @susandirende

MORE CURIOSITY.

There is a book I might never finish reading,
with words that were never meant to be read.

The words of wisdom shared in Meditations
were Marcus Aurelius’ thoughts, for himself.

They weren’t preaching to others.
They were teaching himself.

Which shifts the perspective,
and feels like a lesson in itself.

More curiosity = less division.

More humility, and more creativity.