[ love and boldness ]

[mute_everything]

"but the artist cannot look to others to validate his efforts or his calling. if you don't believe me, ask van gogh, who produced masterpiece after masterpiece and never found a buyer in his whole life. the artist [...] must do his work for its own sake. to labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution."

-- steven pressfield, the war of art

"whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. boldness has genius, magic, and power in it. begin it now."

-- j.w. von goethe