February 2012
20 posts
“An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.”
– James Abbot McNeill Whistler (via etceterablog)
“your life is your life
don’t let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the...”
– The Laughing Heart by Charles Bukowski (via steve-kim)
“It seems to me that art has to be ritually separated from life in order to be...”
– Mike Kelley
williamlmoore:
“Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn’t allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow – “don’t hate me for my success, don’t hate me for my power”. She doesn’t pretend to the press that she thinks she is not talented, or suggest that she happened to make high-level art...
“A young man wrote to Mozart and said, “Herr Mozart, I am thinking of writing...”
– Malkavian Quotes (via roelofbotha)
“It sounds subtle, but these are the only days where I find myself getting...”
– Start every day as a producer, not a consumer - Journal - Daniel Howells
/via @eric_wvgg (via pieratt)
“Asked what he’d save from his burning house, Cocteau replied “The fire!”
– Mrs Tsk *: (via anfischer)
Top five regrets of the dying
nevver:
I wish I’d had the courage to live a life true to myself, not the life others expected of me.
I wish I hadn’t worked so hard.
I wish I’d had the courage to express my feelings.
I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.
I wish that I had let myself be happier.
more
(I hate to say it but this rings pretty true. Not that I’m dying. I mean, not soon. I hope. Well, OK,...
“When it becomes harder and harder to see the greatness that lies ahead, that’s...”
– (via thetaoofdana)
“Take a risk. Forget spending that $500 on yet another camera or lens and instead...”
– Andrew Reid: “To invest in gear, or creativity? It all comes down to risk” (via kenyatta)
“Do not take life’s experiences too seriously. Above all, do not let them hurt...”
– Paramahansa Yogananda (via yourdreamswillcome)
“If you really want to rebel against your parents: outearn them, outlive them,...”
– Henry Rollins (via sirmitchell)
(...) I'm philosophically opposed to suicide;... →
fette:
Matthew Gallaway, The Suicide Impulse, February 2012.
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It...”
– Rumi #quote (via sarahbethmodel)
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once we grow...”
– Pablo Picasso (via billykidd)
“Remember to look up at the stars, and not down to your feet. Try to make sense...”
– Stephen Hawking (source: muldershutup, via rockandrollandrobin)
January 2012
24 posts
“Nietzsche stressed this point. As he observed in his 1878 book Human, All Too...”
– How Do We Identify Good Ideas? | Wired Science | Wired.com (via slantback)
“The importance of doing everything you do to your very best. And that the...”
– What ideals have you embraced from Steve Jobs? JC Penney CEO talks about the chain | Seattle Times Newspaper
“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.”
– Quotes by Max Lucado at allpoetry (via slantback)
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...
