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
