“There’s a better way to do it. Find it.”
Thomas Alva Edison
Monthly Archives: November 2015
Quote for Monday, November 23, 2015
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“A book of 500 pages, or of 100 pages, or even of 25, wherein all the pages are similar, is a boring book considered as a book, no matter how thrilling the content of the words of the text printed on the pages might be.”
Ulises Carrión, The New Art of Making Books
Quote for Monday, November 15, 2015
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“And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.”
Homer
Quote for Monday, November 9, 2015
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“Acceptance means having your work counted as the real thing; approval means having people like it.
“It’s not unusual to receive one with the other.”
Art & Fear by David Bayles and Ted Orland
Quote for Monday, December 7, 2015
“Artists and alchemists have to keep their eye on everything because they do not know what to expect….From a welter of poorly understood substances, artists and alchemists make their choices more or less at random. In part, they know what they want, and in part they are just watching to see what will emerge.”
James Elkins, What Painting Is
Quote for Monday, November 2, 2015
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“Hypostasis is…an infusion of spirit into something inert…Hypostasis is the feeling that something as dead as paint might also be deeply alive, full of thought and expressive meaning.”
James Elkins, What Painting Is