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Dec 06 Reblogged

If the artist is excessively dependent on simply being “liked,” so that her true end isn’t in the work but in a certain audience’s good opinion, she is going to develop a terrific hostility to that audience, simply because she has given all her power away to them. It’s the familiar love-hate syndrome of seduction: “I don’t really care what it is I say, I care only that you like it. But since your good opinion is the sole arbitrator of my success and worth, you have tremendous power over me, and I fear you and hate you for it.” This dynamic isn’t exclusive to art.
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David Foster Wallace. (via dailymeh)

I think this applies to relationships too…on a different level and dimension.

Notes

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    dailymeh, leahcreates, and align) That last line...especially important. This dynamic...
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    am not being a jerk when I try...explain that whether or not *I* like
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