Artists don't need to be miserable, depressed people to be great. That is a toxic myth. But art does need to be miserable and painful and scary at points to be good. There's no shortcut.

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friction doesn't just make art great, it makes art period. and there are always, always trade-offs for reducing friction.

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the idea phase is the easiest and least valuable part of professional creativity. read the first draft of the first Star Wars if you doubt me Great art is made in the grinding, often miserable collision between the ethereal substance of an idea and the mud and blood and friction of reality

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To clarify, this is a dumb joke about the movie, “Fjord,” which I found beautiful to look at but dumb and boring, not a dumb joke about Bjork, who is a beautiful genius.

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she wants to kill that bird with every bone in her little body

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