1000 reasons not to start making art

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I've been wanting to be an artist as long as I know; but somehow I've never really gone for it; for trying to make a living off it, to make it my life. As I get older I face the possibility that it will always be just a dream. And I have to ask myself: Why? What are the fears/ thoughts/ obstacles that keep me from pursuing my dream? These are those 1000 reasons, and my 1000 efforts to either debunk them or give in. contact me: 1000reasonsnoart at gmail dot com Ask me anything

December 9, 2012

"The scientific rigidity acts very much like a trap, the trap of rationalization. The patient who is a hypersensitive person cannot help being influenced by what he is expected to say, by the quick classification baring the structure too obviously. The neurotic feels his next statement is expected to fit into a logical continuity whose pressure he finally succumbs to. The more this process becomes clear to him, the more he experiences a kind of discouragement with the banality of it. The “naming” of his trouble, being in itself so prosaic, links it to his physical diseases, and deprives him of that very illusion and creative halo which is necessary to the re-creation of a human being. Instead of discovering the poetic, imaginative, creative potentialities of his disease (since every neurotic fantasy is really a twisted, aborted work of art), he discovers the de-poetization of it, which makes of him a cripple instead of a potential artist."

— Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol 1. (via steve-kim)

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