February 2012
36 posts
youmightfindyourself:
William Gibson, on inspiration itwonlast:
I very seldom compose anything in my head which later finds its way into text, except character names sometimes – I’m often very much inspired by things that I misunderstand. Have you ever seen Brian Eno’s deck of Oblique Strategies? One of them is “Honor thy error as a hidden intention.” That’s my favorite. [At a] hotel in New...
“Social learning is really visual theft, and in a species that has it, it would...”
– Why remix culture and collaborative creativity are an evolutionary advantage.
bit.ly/wFTBnu (via wanderingwanderingstar)
“I really don’t think the psychology of the artist matters all that much and I...”
– Matthew Aquilone (mjaquilone@yahoo.com), as submitted. Agree/disagree? Submit via quote or the ask feature. (via hyperallergic)
“I paint in order not to cry.”
– Paul Klee (via fourteenth)
“Making fiction for children, making books for children, isn’t something you do...”
– (via neil-gaiman)
nickmiller:
“I want you to imagine a world where writing is a very uncool talent. Imagine that there’s very little money in it. Imagine that your parents will hate you for embracing it, that your friends will make fun of you, that no girl will be impressed by it. Imagine that you’ll never truly be fulfilled by anything that you write. Imagine a life stacked with many lonely days and nights....
“I used many times to touch my own chest and feel, under its asthmatic quiver,...”
– Stephen Fry (via misswallflower)
Never real and always true: on depression and... →
psychotherapy:
Writer James Bradley’s wonderful essay on the links, both real and mythologized, between mental health and creativity. A highly recommended read.
“I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and live...”
– Muhammad Ali: In His Own Words (via douix)
viafrank:
“A master in the art of living draws no sharp distinction between his work and his play; his labor and his leisure; his mind and his body; his education and his recreation. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence through whatever he is doing, and leaves others to determine whether he is working or playing. To himself, he always appears to be doing...
“Others’ pictures are more interesting than those we can make.”
– In Digital Age, Sourcing Images Is as Legitimate as Making Them | Raw File | Wired.com (via porcupineschool)
“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)