Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So: A Memoir

by Mark Vonnegut Md

Most adults have forgotten what they had to do to survive childhood.

Art is lunging forward without certainty about where you are going or how to get there, being open to and dependent on what luck, the paint, the typo, the dissonance, give you. Without art you’re stuck with yourself as you are and life as you think life is.

An artist is someone who isn’t put off by how terrible his first tries are, who finds himself talking back and notices that he changes and grows when he makes art.