If I die an old maid, would it not be better for the sake of creating art? Shouldn’t one always wonder about those old loves who got away? Speculating and musing make for great sparks in the imagination. Unfulfilled destiny gives way to great acting! You live through your characters everything you don’t achieve in reality. Maybe I will become a monk. Crucify myself for art making. If only I found discipline though. It’s a beast I can’t tame. I prefer thinking to doing. Not a great quality at times. Really a terrible quality. A killer.
It could be a bad idea to live for art.
“If you were in a burning house and there was a cat and a Rembrandt, what would you save? The cat…you would save the cat, because the cat is alive. The art is dead. It’s just paint on a canvas, ink on a page. To live for art is to deny life. It’s just to destroy life.”
Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider, Northern Exposure, Cicely 1992
