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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast

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Part memoir, part self-help, part chat show, part tragic-comedy. #Artist Alex Loveless takes us on his journey through using #creativity to maintain #MentalHealth, bearing all in the hopes that it'll help you on yours. Wherever you get your #podcasts.

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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 14h
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"The point is, repetition is the death of art. Any item reproduced in sufficient numbers degrades in value to the point it is worthless, and anything that has no intrinsic worth cannot, by definition, be art." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 9 ? Breaking the Rules
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 20h
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"You don?t have to bring your whole self to the process of creation. Your self is going to leak out everywhere in everything you do, whether you want to or not, you don?t have to think about that process. It happens naturally, the moment you start creating." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 2 ? Process
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 23h
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"Borrowing, paying homage, and emulating are all essential to creativity and art. There is nothing that is truly new. Every creative act stands on the shoulders of giants." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 38 Sharing is Caring
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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"The value of creativity from a mental health perspective is precisely in the doing. And using an AI is manifestly not doing. Anyone who thinks the end product is the only thing that matters fundamentally has misunderstood what creativity is." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 67 Make it, Don?t Fake it
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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"In a world that?s going to crap, people take solace in art, and many of the antidotes to the problems in the world are in part something that art and the art community can help solve." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 8 ? AI will not replace you!
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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"We don?t need artists to suffer to gratify our need for catharsis. Suffering happens, that?s a fact of life. But It is never necessary, never. It is always wrong to wish or otherwise expect someone else to experience pain for our own gratification." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 10 ? Suffering for Art
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
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"Flow happens when you get out the way of your subconscious. Voice in turn naturally emerges when you do so. You can only really achieve flow when your mastery is of sufficient level to achieve what your voice desires. Therefore you need to practise to achieve either." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 15 ? Finding Your Voice
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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"Perfectionism is an evasive animal that prefers not to be seen, but hides in plain sight. It is irrationality masquerade thing has common sense." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 3 ? Perfectionism
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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"Every small gift counteracts a small hurt. Every sliver of light, no matter how small, gives someone who is suffering a reason to carry on. And as an artist you are in the privileged position to be able to create such moments by doing something that you love" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 4? Sharing
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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"Those moments feverishly tapping words into a laptop, scribbling on a piece of paper, slathering a canvas with paint, those moments are pure experience. To delegate those to the inert mathematical artifact that is an LLM feels like getting someone else to eat your food for you." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 67 Make it, Don?t Fake it
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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"Your work needs to evolve. It needs to be fresh. It needs to be fresh for you, and it needs to be fresh for your buyers, your fans, your admirers" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 6 ? Experimentation
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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"If you're lucky enough to be producing work that sells no matter what, which also happens to be exactly what you want to be doing, then I'd say you're the luckiest person alive." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 48 ? Balls to Conformity
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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"If someone breaks down in tears in front of my artwork, I can take it one of two ways - it?s either so bad that it made them cry, or more likely that I've opened up something in them. And that's probably the greatest reward." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 75 ? Emotions and Art
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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"Your ability to focus your attention on creativity as something inherently positive to help improve your state of mind and your well-being in the present which in turn will improve your state of mind and well-being in the future" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 35 Your Attention Please!
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
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"All the while you're scattered, all the while you're worried and stressed and pulled in lots of different directions you're achieving less. That single-mindedness of autonomy over your environment and the things that you're doing creates a sense of calm that gives us energy and the ability to go on" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 65 ? On Being Calm
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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"Your mind, your body is a homeostasis machine. Living things need to find some level of equilibrium for them to function meaningfully. If you're constantly stressing that system it's constantly having to find balance and you can sometimes find an unhealthy level of balance in a wrong state." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 65 ? On Being Calm
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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"The arts provide solace and escape from a wearying world for both the creator and the consumer. Such a refuge can provide that vital breathing space, to recharge so that we may resume the fight revitalised." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 18 ? Art Against Mental Politics
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
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"Just because you set out to do one thing doesn't mean to say that's the thing that you should do. It's good to point yourself in a direction but just let the tide take you. " Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 47 ? Bach and Forth
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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"These people were not martyrs to their art, or their fans. They were humans experiencing intolerable levels of illness and misery?they didn?t suffer because of their art, they suffered despite their art." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 10 ? Suffering for Art
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
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"You can?t help but absorb approaches and ideas from people who you work with. And they in turn absorb from you. They take your ideas and expand on them based on their experiences and interactions, and when you work with them again you absorb your own ideas back again, but now expanded, mutated, maybe even improved." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 12 ? How to be creative part 1 - All that jazz!
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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"There's a market and there's an audience for anything that someone has delivered with passion and love. It just takes longer to find the audience for some than it does for others. Sometimes you have to create that audience." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 48 ? Balls to Conformity
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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"Getting shit wrong is unpleasant for sure, but it's just part of the process. Yes, we should all avoid doing it, that's what quality control is about, but we can't let it paralyse us." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep.68 The Perils of Performance Pressure
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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"This idea that things come out of the ether perfectly formed is antithetical to the creative process. It simply isn?t part of it. There?s no such thing as that stroke of genius. People might have intuitive leaps, but you have intuitive leaps all the time. That?is?creativity." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 8 ? AI will not replace you!
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
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"You can?t ignore all the things that happen between each artwork. All these things were part of creating each one of those artworks and part of the creative progression that people will observe from one to the next." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 2 ? Process
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
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"Fulfilment comes from overcoming obstacles, achievement can only occur where there is a challenge. That feeling that you've pushed your abilities that bit further. You've created something really interesting and unique and special." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 17 Mo Art Mo Problems
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
#CreativeQuotes #QuoteOfTheDay #Art #MentalHealth #Podcast #ArtTherapy
"You don?t have to bring your whole self to the process of creation. Your self is going to leak out everywhere in everything you do, whether you want to or not, you don?t have to think about that process. It happens naturally, the moment you start creating." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 2 ? Process
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Art #ArtistQuotes #Artists #ArtTherapy #MentalHealth #Podcast
"Improving your artistic practice isn't all about moving towards a point. It isn't always about the skills that you have that find their way onto the canvas. Sometimes it's about the skill you have to not exercise those skills." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 72 ? Alex thinks he knows when to stop
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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"As rational and sensible as your ruminations and self-criticisms seem, they?re often just another symptom of incipient anxiety. And what better way to relive anxiety, than the act of creation?" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 14 ? Overthinking
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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"As your artistic voice evolves, so does the way that you tell yourstory. It?s almost as if you?re harmonising with your past self, singing the same song but with different, complimentary voices" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 7 ? Stories
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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"The bedrock of creativity is being creative, and to be creative you must practise creativity. You need to just get on with it. Pick up your flute, open your notebook, adorn your smock, fire up your laptop. Don't think. Just do." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 54 Master of None
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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"The ability to work on whatever suits me, whatever makes me happy at that moment, to explore and to engage with new material, subject matters, approaches, styles?that makes me happy. It makes me relaxed."" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 48 ? Balls to Conformity
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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"Every small gift counteracts a small hurt. Every sliver of light, no matter how small, gives someone who is suffering a reason to carry on. And as an artist you are in the privileged position to be able to create such moments by doing something that you love" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 4? Sharing
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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"To have a creative practice that is conducive to good mental health, your things need to be where they need to be. Removing distractions is as important as making the time that you can spend in your creative space being creative." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 11 ? Transitions
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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"Fulfilment comes from overcoming obstacles, achievement can only occur where there is a challenge. That feeling that you?ve pushed your abilities that bit further. You?ve created something really interesting and unique and special." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 17 ? Mo Art Mo Problems
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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"As an artist, you choose what of you to expose and when. Youc ontrol the exposition, narrative and pace of the story. And you can, and almost certainly already, expose your narrative in a nonlinear way, drip feeding it from one work to the next" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 7 ? Stories
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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"When you take the decision to let what is supposedly underneath out, you are not exposing anything at all. You're just taking a decision, at that moment, do what is natural to you. To shine, even at the expense of momentarily blinding those who perceive you with your radiant light. It is an act of bravery and resolution. " Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 51 Be an Ass; or, The Masks We All Wear
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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"For the therapeutic value of art to really work, you need to be able to feel that you can be whoever you want to be." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 6 ? Experimentation
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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"One of the biggest barriers to us really using creativity to maintain our mental health is the barriers we put up for ourselves. The problems that we cause for ourselves that stop us from progressing." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 33 Learning How to Learn
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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"I find it sad that so many artists out there have to spend more of their time than they'd like producing stuff because it sells rather than producing stuff because it's what they want" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 48 ? Balls to Conformity
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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"You are the fractal complexity from where true beauty can emerge. You are a wave in the societal tide that can create and destroy with equal force. Regardless of where you fit in. Culture exists because of you and will be different without you." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 37 You Are a Fractal Pattern
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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"Those moments feverishly tapping words into a laptop, scribbling on a piece of paper, slathering a canvas with paint, those moments are pure experience. To delegate those to the inert mathematical artifact that is an LLM feels like getting someone else to eat your food for you." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 67 Make it, Don?t Fake it
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#CreativeQuotes #MentalHealth #Art #ArtCommunity #ArtistQuotes #Podcast
"If repetition is the death of art, then uniqueness is it?s beating heart. Art thrives on novelty. Art requires novelty" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 9 ? Breaking the Rules
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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"Everyone else seems to imagine that our work exudes from a magic unicorn horn, maybe it?s better that they do. But I?m not a unicorn. And my work takes, well, work." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 3 ? Perfectionism
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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"If you're lucky enough to be producing work that sells no matter what, which also happens to be exactly what you want to be doing, then I'd say you're the luckiest person alive." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 48 ? Balls to Conformity
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
#ArtistQuotes #MentalHealthArt #Podcast #Art #MentalHealth #ArtPodcast
"Your work needs to evolve. It needs to be fresh. It needs to be fresh for you, and it needs to be fresh for your buyers, your fans, your admirers" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 6 ? Experimentation
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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"Getting shit wrong is unpleasant for sure, but it's just part of the process. Yes, we should all avoid doing it, that's what quality control is about, but we can't let it paralyse us." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep.68 The Perils of Performance Pressure
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#Artists #CreativeQuotes #Podcast #MentalHealth #ArtCommunity #Art
"The value of creativity from a mental health perspective is precisely in the doing. And using an AI is manifestly not doing. Anyone who thinks the end product is the only thing that matters fundamentally has misunderstood what creativity is." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 67 Make it, Don?t Fake it
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#MentalHealthArt #MentalHealth #Podcast #Art #QuoteOfTheDay #ArtQuotes
"All the while you're scattered, all the while you're worried and stressed and pulled in lots of different directions you're achieving less. That single-mindedness of autonomy over your environment and the things that you're doing creates a sense of calm that gives us energy and the ability to go on" Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Ep. 65 ? On Being Calm
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#ArtistQuotes #Podcast #MentalHealth #ArtQuotes #ArtPodcast #Art
"Perfectionism is an evasive animal that prefers not to be seen, but hides in plain sight. It is irrationality masquerade thing has common sense." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 3 ? Perfectionism
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Art Against Mental Illness Podcast @artagainst.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#MentalHealth #ArtPodcast #ArtCommunity #Artists #Art #Podcast
"Flow happens when you get out the way of your subconscious. Voice in turn naturally emerges when you do so. You can only really achieve flow when your mastery is of sufficient level to achieve what your voice desires. Therefore you need to practise to achieve either." Art Against Mental Illness Podcast Episode 15 ? Finding Your Voice
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