Wednesday, February 02, 2011
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
happiness?
s: i wish people used the word HAPPY the way they do in Russia.
me: how do they use it in Russia?
s: the word for Happiness is… well, it means something else.
me: can you explain?
s: it implies that you have a piece of something that’s fleeting.
you may catch it, or it may leave you…you may be with it, literally,
or ask it to stay with you, and there are many songs on that,
or it may choose to leave you
you can find it, but it may leave.
and so on.
a more advanced notion of the term would be
it’s in motion
so…
dynamic tranquility is probably best to describe it.
“dynamic tranquility.” that’s lovely.
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Saturday, October 09, 2010
Tuesday, October 05, 2010
Thursday, September 30, 2010
‘Art is fundamentally a survival device of the species. Otherwise it wouldn’t be so persistent. It wouldn’t be in every culture. We wouldn’t know about it…
How does art help you survive? It helps us survive by making us attentive. In a simplistic way, when you go past a forest and you look at it and you say, ‘that looks just like Cézanne.’ And you realize Cézanne has made you see the reality of the forest in a way that you never could have seen before. He’s made you attentive. Every work of art that you care about makes us attentive.’ Milton Glaser
Thursday, September 23, 2010
Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
What happens between us
has happened for centuries
we know it from literature
still it happens
there are books that describe all this
and yet they are useless
You walk into the woods behind a house
there in that country
you find a temple
built eighteen hundred years ago
you enter without knowing
what it is you enter
so it is with us
no one knows what may happen
though the books tell everything
burn the texts said Artaud
— Adrienne Rich
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Sunday, August 08, 2010
‘We are too unobservant or too self-centred to fathom one another. Anyone who has seen masks at a ball, dancing amicably together, and holding hands without recognizing one another, only to part a moment later, and neither to meet again nor miss one another, can form a conception of the world at large.’
— Luc de Clapiers de Vauvenargues, ‘Reflections and Maxims’
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Tuesday, July 27, 2010
Thursday, June 17, 2010
E.D.: Is there a philosophy behind your work?
J.T.: I think philosophy is not the right word. If anything, there is more discipline than philosophy behind my work. Philosophy is a rational study and my work is not always so rational. But it is in search of some kind of truth, albeit unattainable. There is certainly a lot of thoughts behind my work. But there is no conclusion, it asks more questions than it answers. Everything That Happens is my most rational work to date, where the ideas were carried out in a somewhat logical way, but I tried to also leave the work open, leaving room for interpretation.
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Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Do what your heart calls you to do, and do it with all your heart. Then follow your inspiration and your joy in pursuing that calling, and try not to be shy!
Tuesday, June 15, 2010
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In jealousy there is more self-love than love-François de La Rochefoucauld
Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
some pursue happiness others create it
i hate just looking, i always try to grab-D.H. Mondfleur
Gehry: Creativity and a will to do it. And a lot of it is common sense.
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