10 Pieces of Advice for Artists by Jerry Saltz (might work for different life plans too):

1. Go to an art school that doesn’t cost too much. Those who go to Yale and Columbia might get a nine-month career bump right after graduation, but you’ll all be back on the same level in a year, and you won’t be in as much debt.

2. Envy will eat you alive.

3. Stay up late with each other after all the professors go to sleep. Support one another.

4. You can’t think your way through an art problem. As John Cage said, “Work comes from work.”

5. Follow your obsessions. If you love the Cubs that much, maybe they need to be in your work.

6. Don’t take other people’s ideas of skill. Do brain surgery with an axe.

7. Don’t define success by money, but by time.

8. Do not let rejection define you.

9. Don’t worry about getting enough sleep. Worry about your work.

10. Be delusional. It’s okay to tell yourself you’re a genius sometimes.

"En un mundo de plástico y ruido
quiero ser de barro y de silencio"

Eduardo Galeano

Cuando querés llorar y dormir, al mismo tiempo.

Hasta el día siguiente.

Quisiera dormir y que mientras mis lágrimas huyesen.

Que não demora pra essa dor...
SANGRAR.

"Se seu plano era contra o meu fígado,
Meu bem, você foi bem sucedido;
Parabéns pra você."

"una sombra poblada de relámpagos, de serpientes luminosas"

Esteban Cabañas

Tú sabes cómo es esto:
si miro
la luna de cristal, la rama roja 
del lento otoño en mi ventana, 
si toco
junto al fuego 
la impalpable ceniza
o el arrugado cuerpo de la leña, 
todo me lleva a ti, 
como si todo lo que existe, 
aromas, luz, metales, 
fueran pequeños barcos que navegan 
hacia las islas tuyas que (ya no) me aguardan.


Si tú me olvidas - Pablo Neruda. Pequeña intervención mía en la última línea.