January 2012
2 posts
5 tags
“I can always live in my art, but never in my life.”
– Ingmar Bergman, director
5 tags
“Life is like a play. It is not the length but the excellence of the acting that...”
– Seneca
December 2011
5 posts
4 tags
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“An eccentric is a person whose mind and senses are excited by things that the...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions
6 tags
“The middlebrow or the upper Philistine cannot get rid of the furtive feeling...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, from Strong Opinions
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“I’d like to tell someone I love them, Jeeves.” “A very human longing,...”
– Jonathan Ames (thought I’d break the somberness by adding some funny quotes)
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“The desk is a dangerous place from which to watch the world”
– John le Carre
November 2011
2 posts
8 tags
“You have to live spherically—in many directions. To accept yourself for...”
– Federico Fellini
“Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still...”
– Thoreau
October 2011
1 post
4 tags
“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on...”
– Upton Sinclair
September 2011
1 post
4 tags
“One should never simplify or pretend to be sure of simplicity where there is...”
– Jacques Derrida
August 2011
1 post
3 tags
“The book changes because it stays the same while the world changes around it.”
– Unknown, it’s from a design magazine
April 2011
1 post
3 tags
“The thing I hate the most about advertising is that it attracts all the bright,...”
– Banksy
March 2011
19 posts
8 tags
“You ought to be able to be an Abstract-Expressionist next week, or a Pop artist,...”
– Andy Warhol
7 tags
“Criticality is a strategy for the production of knowledge. Our view is that art...”
– Charles Gaines (conceptual artist)
“One has to believe in what one is doing, one has to commit oneself inwardly, in...”
– Gerhard Richter (painter, duh)
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“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and...”
– Mark Twain
“The greatness of a free literature and art, the ideals of humanism, the sorrows...”
– Herbert Marcuse
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“Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they...”
– Camille Paglia
“The narrative… is that contemporary art has become a kind of alternative...”
– Sarah Thornton, author of “Seven Days in the Art World.”
“Facts are the enemy of truth.”
– Don Quixote
“You must learn to exist with no religion, no country, no allies. You must learn...”
– William Burroughs
“We are generalists. You can’t draw neat lines around planet-wide problems”
– Pardot Kynes
“Any path with a heart is a path worth following”
– Carlos Castaneda
“My thinking tends to be libertarian. That is, I oppose intrusions of the state...”
– Camille Paglia
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”
– Saint Augustine
“I’m from where I was born. I’m from elsewhere.”
– João Guinamães Rosa
6 tags
“Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of...”
– Camille Paglia
“Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just...”
– Camille Paglia
“If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
– Winston Churchill
“The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the...”
– Muad’Dib (Frank Herbert)
“The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will”
– Herman Hesse
February 2011
1 post
3 tags
“We survive in one another. Everything lives forever.”
– Timothy Findley’s ‘The Wars’ (with thanks to Alysse Kushinski)
January 2011
4 posts
2 tags
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
– Plato
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“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore, we must...”
– Reinhold Niebuhr (with thanks to Nick Braybrooke)
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“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?”
– Andy Warhol
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“The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.”
– Susan Sontag
December 2010
1 post
6 tags
“Talent hits a target no one else can hit, while genius hits a target that no one...”
– Arthur Schopenhauer
November 2010
9 posts
4 tags
“Ideas occur when dissimilar universes collide”
– Seth Godin
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“to be contemporary means to come back to a present where we have never been. The...”
– Hans Ulrich Obrist, co-director of the Serpentine Gallery (via thatrepository)
“I don`t know how much movies should entertain. To me, I’m always interested in...”
– David Fincher (via thatrepository)
“The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing...”
– Tibor Kalman (via thatrepository)
4 tags
“Anything great in this world has come from neurotics”
– Marcel Proust (via thatrepository)
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“If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left,and ask me how I’d like to...”
– Luis Buñuel
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“Anyone who cannot feel passionate love - for women or flowers or bibelots or...”
– Edmond de Goncourt
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“No one realized that the book and the labyrinth were one and the same…”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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“The man that cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot”
– André Breton
October 2010
7 posts
6 tags
“To find a form that accommodates the mess; that is the task of the artist now.”
– Samuel Beckett
3 tags
“All art is revolt against man’s fate”
– Andre Malraux, 1951
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“In order to define art precisely, one must first of all cease looking at it as...”
– Leo Tolstoy