Inspiration: Miranda July

Starting the year off slowly. Trying to be mindful and brave. For inspiration, Miranda July.

Everyone can make art and live an artful life. What holds people back from doing that?

"There’s not a lot of positive feedback, especially early on. You need people around you saying, “What happened to you today that was interesting?” You have to genuinely believe that there is something interesting and special about daily life and your experience of it. I think people feel this innately, because life is pretty amazing. But the idea that this feeling might be correct and natural and worth sharing—you’re quickly told it’s self-indulgent or selfish or just so off topic. And everything reinforces that as you get older." {via}

Advice to artists

"You give into distraction as if it is a murderer. You lay there, waiting to be killed. Today: fight for your life." {via}

From No One Belongs Here More Than You

“It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.”

If you could pull the rug out from under one problem in society, what would it be?

"Maybe it’s because I live in L.A., but I’m very aware of how much people want attention. In different ways, not just the obvious ones. Essentially they want to be re-parented, want a second shot at someone telling them they are the best thing ever. And so many other problems come out of that: intense consumerism, body stuff for women." {via}