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Mon 11 Sep 2023

Bud

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

“Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn’t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to the patient, who are there as though eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly still and wide. I learn it daily, learn it with pain to which I am grateful: patience is everything!”

—Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to A Young Poet

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Tue 16 May 2023

Poetry

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

“Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.”

—Vincent Van Gogh, letter to Theo Van Gogh, March 18, 1883

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Mon 24 Apr 2023

Colors

Posted by PJ under art, character, color, hope, love, quote of the day
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Random quote of the day:

“The color and the lines contain your character and your message. If all of life moves inevitably towards its end, we must, during ours, color it with all our colors of love and hope.

—Marc Chagall, speech at the dedication of the Musée National Biblique, 1973

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Wed 22 Mar 2023

Worlds

Posted by PJ under art, creation, quote of the day, worldbuilding, writers, writing
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Random quote of the day:

“I believe one writes because one has to create a world in which one can live. I could not live in any of the worlds offered to me—the world of my parents, the world of war, the world of politics. I had to create a world of my own, like a climate, a country, an atmosphere in which I could breathe, reign, and recreate myself when destroyed by living. That, I believe, is the reason for every work of art.

—Anais Nin, diary, February 1954

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Wed 8 Mar 2023

Visible

Posted by PJ under art, quote of the day, the world
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“A true work of art in no way depends for its justification on its seeming connections with the place that many call the real world and that I call the visible world.

—Gerald Murnane, A Million Windows

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Wed 8 Feb 2023

Importance

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

“You can calculate the worth of a man by the number of his enemies, and the importance of a work of art by the harm that is spoken of it.

—Gustav Flaubert, letter to Madame Louise Colet, June 14, 1853

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Mon 30 Jan 2023

Grief

Posted by PJ under art, grief, quote of the day, suffering
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“There is a stage in suffering, or in any emotion, or passion, when it belongs to what is most personal and inexpressible in man and there is a stage when it belongs to art. But in its first moments art can never do anything with it. Art is the distance that time gives to suffering.

—Albert Camus, Notebooks 1942-1951 (tr. Justin O’Brien)

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Mon 19 Dec 2022

Fire

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

“As an artist, you need the naysayers and the nonbelievers to add fuel to your creative fire.”

―Ice-T, Ice: A Memoir of Gangster Life and Redemption—from South Central to Hollywood


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Thu 10 Nov 2022

Art

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

“Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

—Rebecca West, The Court and the Castle

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Thu 4 Aug 2022

Back

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

“I paint with my back to the world.”

—Agnes Martin, quoted in “Agnes Martin: the artist mystic who disappeared into the desert,” by Olivia Laing,The Guardian, 22 May 2015

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