Irresponsible – Kirsten Johnson
“To be an artist is to recognize the particular. To appreciate the peculiar. To allow a sense of play in your relationship to accepted standards. To ask the question, “Why?” To be an artist is to risk admitting that much of what is money, property, and prestige strikes you as just a little silly.
To be an artist is to acknowledge the astonishing. It is to allow the wrong piece in a room if we like it. It is to hang onto a weird coat that makes us happy. It is to not keep trying to be something that we aren’t.
If you are happier writing than not writing, painting than not painting, singing than not singing, acting than not acting, directing than not directing, for God’s sake… let yourself do it.
To kill your dreams because they are irresponsible is to be irresponsible to yourself.” — Julia Cameron, Artist’s Way
“Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.” — Winston Churchill
“Work while you have the light. You are responsible for the talent that has been entrusted to you.” — Henri Frederic Amiel
“Freedom is the will to be responsible to ourselves”
— Friedrich Nietzsche
“In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for ”finding himself.” If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.”
— Thomas Merton
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