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Love is Confusing
Here are some things I’ve heard people say when asked about the topic.
“Loving someone is giving them what they need to grow.”
“Love and need are two different things.”
“I want you to love me more.”
Marc Ecko from Giant Magazine
On his mistakes…
“The biggest mistake a lot of young entrepreneurs make is hiring people they care about emotionally.”
On how to stay relevant…
“The biggest trap for creative types is the moment they start becoming introspective it paralyzes them. You can’t operate from a position of fear of irrelevance. You have to operate from a position of strength and confidence.”
On his greatest success…
“You also can’t tolerate self-loathing artists who do things purely for the sake of art and are too afreaid to commercialize.”
On his work ethic…
“There’s the illusion of me doing this alone, but it’s all due to the chemistry I have with people behind the scenes.”
And a bit of advice…
“You have to aspire becasue you want to change something.”
Frank Robinson on Art
Frank Robinson is the director of the Johnson Museum of art at Cornell University, and recently when asked by Beth Saulnier “What is art?” he replied
…Art is about everything – love, hatred, sex, envy , generosity. It’s about God, about the lack of God. As you live, things just flow by; at the end of the day you’ve had 1000 experiences and not really appreciated any one of them. An artist stops and makes you appreciate life disappearing.
This was excerpted from the May / June issue of Cornell University Alumni Magazine.