Nobody cares what you think. Once a creation has been put into the world, you have only one responsibility to its creator: Be supportive. Support is not about showing how clever you are, how observant of some flaw, how incisive in your criticism. There are other people whose job it is to guide the creation, to make it work, to make it live; either they did their job or they didn’t. But that is not your problem. If you come to my show and you see me afterward, say only this: “I loved it”. It doesn’t matter if that’s what you really felt. What I need at that moment is to know that you care enough about me and the work I do to tell me that you loved it, not “in spite of its flaws”, not “even though everyone else seems to have a problem with it”, but simply, plainly, “I loved it.” If you can’t say that, don’t come backstage, don’t find me in the lobby, don’t lean over the pit to see me. Just go home, and either write me a nice email or don’t. Say all the catty, bitchy things you want to your friend, your neighbor, the Internet. Maybe next week, maybe next year, maybe someday down the line, I’ll be ready to hear what you have to say, but at that moment, that face-to-face moment after I have unveiled some part of my soul, however small, to you: that is the most vulnerable moment in any artist’s life. I beg you, plead with you to tell me what you really thought, what you actually, honestly, totally believed, then you must tell me “I loved it.” That moment must be respected.

May 24 2012 • 06·21 pm • 218 notes

Stephen Sondheim, to Jason Robert Brown (via sundayintheparkwithsondheim)

This will never not be gorgeous.

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She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.

May 24 2012 • 06·16 pm • 2,486 notes
The Art of Fielding, Chad Harbach (via aeraspais)

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May 06 2012 • 09·20 am

We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration.

April 30 2012 • 04·27 pm • 86 notes
Peter Redgrove, Lidia Vianu, Interview With Peter Redgrove  (via ikilledjackjohnson)

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chrisbattleart: Actual poster from the mid-50’s issued by Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare and anti communist witch hunt in Washington.  All artists were suspect.
April 24 2012 • 06·31 am • 31,605 notes

chrisbattleart:

Actual poster from the mid-50’s issued by Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare and anti communist witch hunt in Washington.  All artists were suspect.

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nevver: Fortune
April 21 2012 • 09·40 am • 4,562 notes

nevver:

Fortune

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April 21 2012 • 09·36 am • 114,792 notes

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April 20 2012 • 12·24 pm • 5,737 notes

voluptuousliving:

underthekilt

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nevver: Andy Warhol’s MoMA Rejection Letter
April 19 2012 • 07·30 am • 2,606 notes

nevver:

Andy Warhol’s MoMA Rejection Letter

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solangenoir: Witch Flowers ©2012 
April 19 2012 • 07·28 am • 2 notes

solangenoir:

Witch Flowers ©2012