authenticity

Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is nonexistent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to..." (Jim Jarmush via Adam Schokora).

Basically the only artform we are left with is a "combinatory artform", a collage of references. Because everything has already been expressed. The only thing left for us to do is to play with and reinterpret fragments. Maybe now more than ever, art is a dialogue (related post on Romanian post-modernism).