April 2011
39 posts
“You were born an original. Don’t die a copy.”
– John Mason. Submitted by xpsycho (via quote-book)
1 tag
Everywhere artists are born free and everywhere...
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of talking to a young writer who showed a surprising interest and knowledge of the finer points of mechanical reproduction, cross-hatching and illustration. His questions made me realize how much of this sort of knowledge is slipping away into oblivion. In 50 years crosshatching, and draftsmanship in general, will probably be completely automated. Crosshatching...
4 tags
2 tags
2 tags
3 tags
3 tags
2 tags
2 tags
1 tag
5 tags
1 tag
1 tag
2 tags
2 tags
distant-signals:
I sometimes feel as though the very best people in this world were long ago scattered far and wide, as if some cosmic challenge was issued for them to wade through a lifetime of bullshit in order to find one another.
2 tags
“I’m not sure if I was the first man in space or the last dog.”
– Yuri Gagarin (via stoicmike)
2 tags
3 tags
3 tags
1 tag
2 tags
Couldn’t even tell you how many people I’ve come across in my life with this kind of strangely condescending outlook and unsolicited feedback on this particular personal choice of mine. I trust my own reasons, emotions & feelings about my choices and I truly only gain disappointment when someone reaches out just to tell me I’ve got it all wrong. In the vastness of human experience, I simply...
2 tags
“Whenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos...”
– Henry Miller (via philphys)
2 tags
“I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people...”
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
dreamofwhatcanbe:
“I Still Have Everything You Gave Me It is dusty on the edges. It is slightly rotten. I guard it without thinking. I focus on it once a year when I shake it out in the wind. I do not ache. I would not trade.”
Naomi Shihab Nye
2 tags
“When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
2 tags
“The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and...”
– Carl Gustav Jung
2 tags
“The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your...”
– Joseph Campbell (via gardenofthefareast)
4 tags
1 tag
“This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for...”
– Tenzin Gyatso, The 14th Dalai Lama (via journeytobuddhism)
2 tags
1 tag
Remembering
And you wait. You wait for the one thing that will change your life, make it more than it is— something wonderful, exceptional, stones awakening, depths opening to you. In the dusky bookstalls old books glimmer gold and brown. You think of lands you journeyed through, of paintings and a dress once worn by a woman you never found again. And suddenly you know: that was enough. You rise and there...
2 tags
“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is...”
– Rosalia de Castro (via sleepyeyes)
1 tag
3 tags
3 tags
March 2011
55 posts
1 tag
