“Never try to convey your idea to the audience - it is a thankless and senseless task. Show them life, and they’ll find within themselves the means to assess and appreciate it.”
--- Andrei Tarkovsky
To avoid anguish, don't stray from your values.
"slowly is the fastest way to get where you want to be"
Long ago, I was wounded. I lived to revenge myself against my father, not for what he was-- for what I was: from the beginning of time, in childhood, I thought that pain meant I was not loved. It meant I loved. Louise Gluck Thursday, January 1, 2004
If you want to get lucky... it pays to be ready. Michael Bierut
That’s to not just look at it from an aesthetic lens but one that has a sense of meaning attached to it.
"We do everything so automatically that we have forgotten the poignancy of smell, of physical anguish, of tactile sensations of all kinds" - Lygia Clark
"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." (Marcel Proust)