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Mon 19 Oct 2015

Ratzeriffic

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“I’d been painting rats for three years before someone said “that’s a clever anagram of art” and I had to pretend I’d known that all along.”

—Banksy, Wall and Piece, 2005

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Thu 1 Oct 2015

Recovered

Posted by PJ under art, genius, growing up, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Genius is only childhood recovered at will, childhood now gifted to express itself with the faculties of manhood and with the analytic mind that allows him to give order to the heap of unwittingly hoarded material.”

—Charles Baudelaire, The Painter of Modern Life

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Tue 29 Sep 2015

Becoming

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, self-knowledge, soul, the deep within
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Random quote of the day:

“Practice any art…no matter how well or badly, not to get money or fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what’s inside you, to make your soul grow.”

—Kurt Vonnegut, letter to Xavier high school students, 2006

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Tue 18 Aug 2015

Fake truth

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, truth, what the living do
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Random quote of the day:

“We are walking through fake scenes, but ourselves, as we walk through these scenes, are real.”

—Haruki Murakami, interview, The Paris Review, No. 170, Summer 2004

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Tue 30 Jun 2015

Patience

Posted by PJ under art, patience, quote of the day, understanding
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Random quote of the day:

“You have to be a little patient if you’re an artist, people don’t always get you the first time.”

—Kate Millett, interview, On the Issues magazine, Vol. 10, 1988

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Wed 24 Jun 2015

Alchemy

Posted by PJ under alchemy, art, pain, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“One wishes that pain weren’t the potent alchemical element that it is.”

—Athol Fugard, interview, The Paris Review, Summer 1989, No. 111

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Wed 10 Jun 2015

Get it?

Posted by PJ under art, ideas, quote of the day, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“I do not “get” ideas; ideas get me.”

—Robertson Davies, “We Must Sing with the Voices God Gave Us,” Toronto Star, 19 September 1987

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Wed 25 Mar 2015

Cocktails

Posted by PJ under art, mysticism, quote of the day, truth
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Random quote of the day:

“The true artist helps the world by revealing the mystic truths.”

—Richard Nauman, neon sign sculpture, 1967

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Mon 9 Mar 2015

Beware

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“Beware the artist who’s an intellectual also. The artist who doesn’t fit.”

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

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Mon 2 Mar 2015

Muzak

Posted by PJ under art, music, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“We’re all one beat away from becoming elevator music.”

—Don DeLillo, interview, The Paris Review, Fall 1993, No. 128

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