“Living life as an artist is a practice.You are either engaging in the practiceor you’re not.It makes no sense to say you’re not good at it.It’s like saying, “I’m not good at being a monk.”You are either living as a monk or you’re not.We tend to think of the artist’s…
“Words became cheaper. They multiplied, but lost their value. They are everywhere. There are too many. They swirl, swarm, torment like clouds of insistent flies. They stun.
So we miss tranquility. We miss silence. Wandering through the fields. Through the meadows. Through the forest that hums, but does not waffle,…
Letter to PWST students (State Higher Theater School) by Zbigniew Herbert*
“Warsaw, 12 January 1995
Dear Strangers!
We are quite a peculiar, small, quarrelsome cluster, without which splendid humanity can perfectly do.We are a hopeless minority, and what is worse, we usurp the right to raise anxiety. We want to…
“Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I’m not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you’ve felt that way.” - Charles Bukowski
“Create art even if nobody cares.”
“All civilisations have a tendency toward narcissism, and the stronger the civilisation, the more clearly this tendency will appear. It spurs civilisations into conflict with others, triggering their arrogance and lust for domination.This always involves contempt for Others.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, The Other