Created: 2023-07-05 14:38
Edited: 2024-10-21 17:24
Status: 🌲evergreen

Life is sometimes hard. Things go wrong, in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do.

Make good art.

I'm serious. Husband runs off with a politician? Make good art. Leg crushed and then eaten by mutated boa constrictor? Make good art. IRS on your trail? Make good art. Cat exploded? Make good art. Somebody on the Internet thinks what you do is stupid or evil or it's all been done before? Make good art. Probably things will work out somehow, and eventually time will take the sting away, but that doesn't matter. Do what only you do best. Make good art.

Author: Gaiman, Neil
Source: Commencement Ceremony keynote address at The University of the Arts, May 17, 2012
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This is still a good and useful quote, even though Gaiman turned out to be an abuser.

use this qute as a springboard for separating the art from the artist