January 2011
31 posts
“Did small children die? Is the world coming to an end? If not, you’re cool.”
– How to assess the gravity of what didn’t get done on your day’s to do list, according to jenbee.
On notion of truth
homeofthevain:
Everyone lives in his own fantasy world, but most people don’t understand that. No one perceives the real world. Each person simply calls his private, personal fantasies the Truth. The difference is that I know I live in a fantasy world. I prefer it that way and resent anything that disturbs my vision.
— Federico Fellini
Via letterstoimogen. (via paynehollow)
“If She’s so good, why is she playing in a Novice Tournament? I thought darkly to...”
– Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother (via steve-kim)
“When you’re on the ladder, don’t lean back and admire your work. That’s when you...”
– via (via wizzninetynine)
“What strikes me is the fact that in our society, art has become something which...”
– Michel Foucault (via prunelle) (via notational) (via gouachegalatea) (via artlistpro)
This has been in my drafts forever because I don’t agree with it, at all, and I want to think of a proper response, but it will never happen, yet anyway, i think it is so far besides what is actually the...
“After minimalism, conceptual and performance art, the idea of the artist as...”
– Yes, I aspire to be just that. Fuse Magazine – Rhetorical Maneuvers in Contemporary Art, Part 1 (via tk5)
“I stopped feeling bad about my arrogance when I realised that I’m superior. I...”
– Why arrogance is a virtue for writers humans creators
Arrogance is necessary because without it, I would belittle myself until I don’t produce anything at all. Know you are the greatest to keep yourself from thinking you are not good enough.
(via caseydonahue) Huh? Why did I reblog this three...
“I stopped feeling bad about my arrogance when I realised that I’m superior. I...”
– Why arrogance is a virtue for writers humans creators
Arrogance is necessary because without it, I would belittle myself until I don’t produce anything at all. Know you are the greatest to keep yourself from thinking you are not good enough.
(via caseydonahue)
“I stopped feeling bad about my arrogance when I realised that I’m superior. I...”
– Why arrogance is a virtue for writers humans creators
Arrogance is necessary because without it, I would belittle myself until I don’t produce anything at all. Know you are the greatest to keep yourself from thinking you are not good enough.
(via caseydonahue)
“Because no one can do things the way you can, you really have no competition...”
– (via thetaoofdana) Mmh, that’s just it; i’m afraid (/ i think) ANYONE can do the things i can.
Creativity determines sexual success, research... →
psychotherapy:
The more creative a person is, the more sexual partners they are likely to have, according to a pioneering study which could explain the behaviour of notorious womanisers such as poets Lord Byron and Dylan Thomas.
The research, by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne and the Open University in the UK, found that professional artists and poets have around twice as many sexual...
“I’ll go further and say that the repeated compulsion to resolve and resolve and...”
– Merlin Mann on New Year’s resolutions (via marco)
Andy Warhol.
tiffanyhoran:
‘Why do people think artists are special? It’s just another job.’
Alcohol VS Creativity →
rocom:
The conception that drugs or alcohol activate musicians, writers and other creative persons is actually a myth because according to a psychiatrist they actually prevent creativity. (Click through to read the entire article)
“The advice I like to give to young artists, or really anybody, is not to wait...”
– Chuck Close
via louobedlam
(via hydeordie)
That PDF that I so casually downloaded? It is rocking my world without safety it is changing my life right now.
“Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be...”
– Milton Glaser: first graphic designer to win the National Medal of Arts. Glaser continues:
How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, “that looks just like Cézanne.” And you realize Cézanne...
“There is no cure for fear of writing. The fear is part of the process.”
– Milli Thornton (via writingadvice)
“So you mustn’t be frightened…if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
(via recycled-words)
“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”
– I think I know what this line is from, just cannot remember. Still; rings true. And damn… (via medicines)
“If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost...”
– Marc Chagall
(via mfs)
“Paint records the most delicate gesture and the most tense. It tells whether the...”
– I want to paint again so badly. MoMA | Just a Bunch of Paintings with Lines?
21 Suggestions for Success:
littlemiss:
By H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Marry the right person. This one decision will determine 90% of your happiness or misery.
Work at something you enjoy and that’s worthy of your time and talent.
Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.
Become the most positive and enthusiastic person you know.
Be forgiving of yourself and others.
Be generous.
Have a grateful heart.
...
“A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has...”
– Louis Auchincloss (via ronenreblogs)
theministryoftruth:
“There is a part of everything which is unexplored, because we are accustomed to using our eyes only in association with the memory of what people before us have thought of the thing we are looking at. Even the smallest thing has something in it which is unknown.” — Gustave Flaubert
“May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...”
– Neil Gaiman (via gatekeeper)