January 2012
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“I think all art is optimistic. Essentially, for me optimism is creativity, it’s...”
– Matthew Stone
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“Beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth,...”
– Plato
December 2011
2 posts
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“I don’t feel rejected by the sky. I’m part of it-tiny, to be sure, but...”
– Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via terramantra)
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“Without knowledge of self there is no knowledge of God. Nearly all the wisdom we...”
– John Calvin, Institutio Christianae Religionis
November 2011
7 posts
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Kester at five thirty till about seven p m,...
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“A human being is a part of a whole, called by us “universe”, a part...”
– Albert Einstein
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“Plato writes that the Form (or Idea) of the Good is the ultimate object of...”
– The Form of the Good. A wiki excerpt.
October 2011
5 posts
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“…they measured a man’s foot, and finding its length the sixth part...”
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“There are two ways to conceive of the cinema of the Real: the first is to...”
– Edgar Morin
“Daydream delusion
Limousine eyelash
Oh, baby with your pretty face
Drop a...”
– Milkshakes, Before Sunrise
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“Just as countries that have broken free of the chains of imperialism strive as...”
– In Search of Encounter: The Sources of Contemporary Art” (1970), in Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity (New York: Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation, 2011)
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September 2011
1 post
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August 2011
4 posts
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A Towel
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value. You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapors; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the...
“Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (via exuperonic)
July 2011
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June 2011
4 posts
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“Yet here, Laertes? Aboard, aboard, for shame!
The wind sits in the shoulder of...”
– Polonius to his son, Laertes [Hamlet Act 1, scene 3, 78–82] http://www.enotes.com/shakespeare-quotes/thine-own-self-true http://www.enotes.com/hamlet-text/act-i-scene-iii#ham-1-3-82
“The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it...”
– Henry Miller (via awakeinthedream)
Nods!
“There is a pervasive form of contemporary violence to which the idealist …most...”
– Previous quote reminded me of this one by Thomas Merton. (via neutresex)
May 2011
6 posts
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“We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
April 2011
3 posts
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“What a Christian portrays in his art is the totality of life. Art is not to be...”
– Francis Shaeffer
“And art exists that one may recover the sensation of life; it exists to make one...”
– Victor Shklovsky, from Art as Technique
..and must be prolonged.
(via buongiorno)
March 2011
11 posts
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WatchMirrorcube.
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It’s elemental. We fight. To live.
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How to Write an Advertising Manifesto
via themoosebody:rachelmercer:jeremydwill:fishingforbats:ilovecharts:bohemianarthouse:
Also known as the Manifesto Manifesto. Written by the visionary Kim Mok.
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A montage of noise and a chasing after some...
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“People think that design is styling. Design is not style. It’s not about giving...”
– Paola Antonelli (via semnos)
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February 2011
12 posts
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“It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied. Better to be...”
– John Stuart Mill
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