I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.
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Leonardo Da Vinci explaining that its time to stop talking about it and start being about it! (via i-peach-feng-shui)
1000R: OKOKOK sheez every other post in here is telling me to get off my ass and do something about it. :-)
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It’s not what’s happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it’s your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you’re going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.
Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest.
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
I don’t believe in genius. I believe in freedom. I think anyone can do it. Anyone can be like Rembrandt.
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Damien Hirst: ‘Anyone can be Rembrandt’ from an interview in the Guardian. I don’t know why I still read Hirst interviews; they annoy me; always the soundbites that are in the end disrespectful to either other artists, art or the viewer. Still, I want to belief this. Related.
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If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.
While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.
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— Lewis Carroll
This is my new mantra.
I resent the way a lot of contemporary art is based on wit. (Probably because I have none of it. I mistrust a lot of Twitter for the same reason). As gimmicky as some of my ideas are I am going to work on them earnestly, in a quest for truth and beauty.
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A man should not strive to eliminate his complexes but to get in accord with them, for they are legitimately what directs his conduct in the world.
If you set your goals ridiculously high and it’s a failure, you will fail above everyone else’s success.
