success and mediocrity

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rebellious silence
Rebellious Silence, 1994

My only advice is to spend less time on thinking about success and put all the energy in making art itself. Otherwise your relationship to your art changes. It becomes less genuine and honest. Art should not be born from a pressure of becoming successful but something deeper. This is always a danger and the cause for mediocrity in art. . . .Shirin Neshat

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One Response to success and mediocrity
  1. alice simpson
    February 17, 2011 | 3:10 pm

    This is an exquisite quote and a reminder which I will carry forward with me.

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