January 2012
20 posts
Learning Your Groove
thetaoofdana:
Not everything you create will start perfectly, or look like you want it to… but if you stick with it long enough, it will!!! You can not learn your groove until you start and truly engage in the creative process. You can’t do that until you get past the weird, awkward, hit or miss early stages of growth. Avoid the temptation to quit… or to not start!… because its not perfect....
billykidd:
If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind. If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind
“The goals we pursue are always veiled. A girl who longs for marriage longs for...”
– Milan Kundera, from The Unbearable Lightness of Being (translated by Michael Henry Heim)
“‘As children, we have all suspected it: perhaps we are all, moving strangely...”
– Georges Bataille, “The Cruel Practice of Art” (via theministryoftruth)
The Self →
theministryoftruth:
I am found of how philosopher Daniel Dennett deals with this problem of perceived, but illusionary selves. He attributes these philosophical problems to the fact that often we think in all-or-nothing terms. Either the self exists or it doesn’t. Dennett thinks that this line of thought leads to the conceptual pitfalls and muddles that arise in thought experiments such as...
“The key to the creative type is that he is separated out of the common pool of...”
– Like it was written directly for me. Like a year’s worth of therapy.
MILLS: Ernest Becker in The Denial of Death, the thesis of which can perhaps be summed thusly: humanity sublimates its fear of death through the causa sui project: the construction of meanings which are enduring and...
“There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable — unobservable...”
– Leonard Susskind (via inthenoosphere)
“A poem is like a heavy weight that the poet has carried to the roof bit by bit....”
– Paul Valéry (via jackrusher)
Why 2012 will be year of the artist-entrepreneur →
Mediocrity principle →
l-brick:
The mediocrity principle is the notion in philosophy of science that there is nothing very unusual about the evolution of our solar system, the Earth, any one nation, or humans. It is a heuristic in the vein of the Copernican principle, and is sometimes used as a philosophical statement about the place of humanity. The idea is to assume mediocrity, rather than starting with the...
“It’s a new year. You can be anything you want. You can do anything you want. You...”
– Twitter / @claytoncubitt (via claytoncubitt)
“And so it is with luck - unlucky people miss chance opportunities because they...”
– Be lucky - it’s an easy skill to learn (via amber-rae : msg)
We make luck. (via ericlodwick : ronenreblogs)
Yes we do.
(via supernice)
(via beautifulordinaire, heyamberrae) (via ronenreblogs)
On greatness and killing your ego.
dearcoketalk:
Dear Coquette,
How do I accept that I won’t ever be great or outstanding? I always thought I had talent, and maybe I’m not bad, but a great many people are far better. I can’t stop thinking this and it’s causing me great anxiety.
Kill your ego, because nothing you do will ever matter. That’s okay, though. It’s not just you. It’s all of us. It’s taken 100,000 years for our species...
December 2011
27 posts
“My advice is to do what you can this second. Big plans that rely on other...”
– Miranda July, interviewed by the Guardian (via jackrusher)
“creativity was a better predictor of dishonesty than intelligence”
– These results are consistent with the study mentioned above by Silvia and colleagues, but go further by showing that not only is there a relationship between creativity and a dishonest personality, but that there is also a relationship between having a creative personality and actually behaving...
Alex Payne on Obligation →
youmightfindyourself:
Back in March, I wrote (and subsequently removed most of) a ham-fisted post about the obligation that smart, privileged people should feel to work on things that might make a difference to other people. This was discussed in the context of questioning whether so-called lifestyle businesses are a good idea for entrepreneurs and society at large.
I’ve mulled over the idea of...
“This is the problem: Many years ago I sat one day, in a sad enough mood, on the...”
– Franz Kafka in his diary, 1920, from Cosmopsis. (via mills)
“I was a loser, most concerned with making a living. It took me 30 years to...”
– Maurizio Cattelan (via artnotartnot)
Does this even makes sense? Not to me! But I want to know what he means pretty badly.
“The picture you have in your mind of what you’re about will come true. It’s kind...”
– Bob Dylan (via scout)
“We played the spot once, and when it finished, Jobs said, “It sucks! I hate it!...”
– Behind the Scenes of Apple’s ‘Think Different’ Campaign (via implodr)
The biggest thing that bothers me about the “Cult of Jobs” is that people often seem to mistake the unfortunate, frequently counterproductive, side effects of the personality that made him great for the very cause of his...
“It also seems to me that the most important mechanism of the Factory, its...”
– On Andy Warhol’s Factory Anton Vidokle, Art without Work? / Journal / e-flux
“It seems to me that art resides within and in between subjects, and subjects...”
– Anton Vidokle, Art without Work? / Journal / e-flux
“We were watching a cartoon on TV and at some point a conversation started about...”
– This whole article is very interesting. I suggest you read it and I plan to post some more quotes Anton Vidokle, Art without Work? / Journal / e-flux
“You also must know that you don’t have to justify your work – not even to...”
– Sol LeWitt (via massmoca)
robotronic94 asked: I just realized that your blog is called reasons not to start making art, why is that? I thought it was reason to not stop making art. Anyway, the main reason I wanted to message you was to ask for advice, could you send me any links that would help someone who wanted to get a strong grip on the basics of art, character design, technique, those sorts of things.
“To wit: As an artist my primary job is to experience things. Then after I...”
– just a short quote from an interesting post by Man Bartlett which I felt like singling out. Read the whole thing though: Man Bartlett I am currently in another tab listening to the linked video and it’s fascinating.
“I don’t think that writers or painters or film-makers function because they have...”
– Stanley Kubrick (via artprize)
“The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human can alter his life by...”
– William James (via illuminatedbeing)
“What am I in the eyes of most people — a nonentity, an eccentric, or an...”
– Vincent van Gogh (via atomos)
Ronen Reblogs: Love your work. →
ronenreblogs:
God, this sentence. These three words are the best thing you can hear.
When someone tells you they like your work, it’s like they’re VCs investing a million emotional dollars you’re going to spend making the next thing.
Some people don’t want to be liked for superficial reasons.
Superficial…
I love your writing!
Related; this is why/ how I feel about tumblr as well,...
“There’s no rocket science to it. It’s like saying, you’re a musician. You get to...”
– This is full of great quotes;
Andrew Stanton (director of Wall-E, Finding Nemo, John Carter) talks to BleedingCool about John Carter:
I planned reshoots for after I got an assembly, so I had real objectivity about what it needed. That’s all we do at Pixar. The truth is, we rip down and put up...
November 2011
45 posts
