The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intensive application and intense discipline. - John F. Kennedy
This film ruined my innocent conception of “Alice in Wonderland”, but I love it
3. Alison Lohman
This 32 year old girl desperately needs to make more movies!
For years I didn’t even call myself an artist, people would be like “art film maker” I’m like “uh yeah I don’t know if what we do is art and shit. I was ashamed.it was a dirty word and what but now that I’m on my way out the door I’m like “oh my god, art is what got me here, art is amazing and shit”. I’m not going to be ashamed about my art anymore. That’s the problem for years and years, people would just fucking tell me “You’re wrong. You’re bad. You failed at self-expression” Do you know what a crock of shit that is? You know how fucking rigged that is, where somebody can literally can tell you in print or on a TV like this or that, that you, as an artist failed at self-expression?… And for years I used to, like, sit there and be like “I’m bad. Why can’t I be better for them?”… How the fuck can somebody tell me that my self-expression is wrong? Even if that fucking self-expression is Cop Out, how could that fucking be wrong?” Like at the end of the day, art is art…. You show a hundred people something you’re going to have 100 different reactions. They aren’t going to be uniform, and consensus don’t make it art. Consensus just makes it kind of I don’t know, fast food or crap or something like that.
—Kevin Smith, “Burn in Hell” (via smokeringbob)
The world is full of fucking “Why,” man. You tell people something, they’ll tell you why. Throw a rock, and you’ll hit somebody with “Why?”
Like, “Hey, man, I want to make a movie.”
“Why? Why do you think you can do that? Why? Why?
Nobody else is doing it. Why are you going to do it?”
There’s so much fucking “Why?”-you go out, and you find
“Why not?”
You surround yourself with “Why not?”
People who are just like “Why not?”
Where you’re like, “Hey, man, I’m gonna try something,” and they’re like “All right, why not? Let’s give it a shot.” People who will try to help you do your dream, make your dreams come true and shit, and you’d do the same for fucking them. We’re all in this together, and it costs nothing to encourage a fucking artist.************
It’s always worth the fucking shot…
I’m talking about artsy shit, you know, writing a blog,
fucking make some music, making a movie,
making a fucking cupcake store
or fucking a knitting store or fucking putting together a
Youtube clip, just anything that’s just not fucking,
“Oh, we must do this, because it’s part of my job, or
this will get money.”
Some shit you just do just to see if it can be done.
(Source: raltimore)
The tales of your inadequacy do not interest me.
—Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada (via thedbfiles)
Kelly Clarkson - Dark Side / Stronger (What Doesn’t Kill You) Medley (Dancing With the Stars Finale)
NIGHTNIGHT by DEDDY
