January 2010
21 posts
“If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don’t even start. This could...”
– Charles Bukowski (via k1nch) (via charlesbukowski)
alphalemon: This basically tears out my insides, eats them and then barfs them onto the floor. Fucking artists!
“The future you see is the future you get.”
– Robert G Allen (via i-peach-feng-shui)
“Your job is to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with any idea...”
– - Lady Gaga (via dirtyplasticsex) (via jackiemorris) (via thisisacelliststumblr) (via jellyfishes) (via libraries) She says the best stuff. (via niner)
This is some compelling motivating stuff.
“He has no talent, that boy! Since you are his friend, tell him to give up...”
– Manet (said to Monet) on Renoir (via smEllie) (via ronenreblogs)
“So pretension is a form of pretending, and pretending can be productive. I...”
– Frieze Magazine | Archive | Class Act (via jomc) (via sympathyfortheartgallery)
jacob:
Always remember: you are not your art.
“Aren’t all our achievements, even if we are struggling in a world where there...”
– Wow. Who/ what is this from asoh?
“I really do care that people are interested in it. I’d like for people to...”
– After the elephant dung: Chris Ofili | Art and design | The Guardian
“Instead of shooting arrows at someone else’s target, which I’ve never been very...”
– Brian Eno (via errorgorilla) Slowly learning that this is the only way. (via instantplasticmaybe) (via notational) (via artlistpro)
“Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has...”
– Andre Malraux (via i-peach-feng-shui)
“I hereby give you (all of you!) permission to turn off the Internet. Reading...”
– Laurie Halse Anderson (via notemily)
“There are those who maintain that you can’t demand anything of the reader. They...”
– Flannery O’Connor, Mystery and Manners. Catholic Novelists and Their Readers, quoted by Ms. Odradek. As is often the case, O’Connor settles this discussion for me. (via mills)
Seth's Blog: Seven years gone →
But on a micro level, on a personal level, this was a decade filled with opportunity. The internet transformed our lives forever. Opportunities were created (and many were taken advantage of). And, like every decade, just about everyone missed it. Just about everyone hunkered down and did their job or did what they were told or did what they thought they were supposed to, and just about everyone...
“What would you be like if there was nobody else in the world? Who would you be...”
– Quentin Crisp (via myownprivate)
two lessons here; 1 don’t listen to anybody else, or ‘what they will think’ when developing your ‘style’. 2 you can change your style.
