Belonging To Someone Quotes

The Shadow is not evil. It is everything You were told to hide in order to belong, anger, desire, grief, neediness, brilliance, queerness, eroticism, boundaries, pleasure, pride. In short: the parts of You that threatened the story someone else needed You to play.

Finding your place in the art world is no easy matter, if indeed there is a place for you at all. In fact one of the few sure things about the contemporary art scene is that someone besides you is deciding which art — and which artists — belong in it. It’s been a tough century for modesty, craftsmanship and tenderness.