"Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments: do this, don't do that."

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It's the artist's duty to have an artist's life, somehow to obtain time and freedom and then to muster the desire and discipline to make good work out of the life, whether that goodness is in the world's aesthetics, its radicalism, its candor, its singularity, or its universality.

— Stephanie Mills