Quotes

[Fade to Black]

"Perhaps all pleasure is only relief." - William S. Burroughs

[lalilulelo]

"The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case."

— Chuck Close

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

Every nine years, nine men come into the house so that I can
free them from all evil. I hear their footsteps or their voices far
away in the galleries of stone, and I run joyously to find them.
The ceremony lasts but a few minutes. One after another, they fall,
without my ever having to bloody my hands. Where they fall, they
remain, and their bodies help distinguish one gallery from the others.
I do not know how many there have been, but I do know that one of
them predicted as he died that someday my redeemer would come.
Since then, there has been no pain for me in solitude, because I know
that my redeemer lives, and in the end he will rise and stand above
the dust. If my ear could hear every sound in the world, I would hear
his footsteps. I hope he takes me to a place with fewer galleries and
fewer doors. What will my redeemer be like, I wonder. Will he be
bull or man? Could he possibly be a bull with the face of a man?
Or will he be like me?

- Jorge Luis Borges The House Of Asterion(1947)

[Fuuma]

After the uprising of the 17th June
The Secretary of the Writer's Union
Had leaflets distributed in the Stalinallee
Stating that the people
Had forfeited the confidence of the government
And could win it back only
By redoubled efforts. Would it not be easier
In that case for the government
To dissolve the people
And elect another?

[Faust]

Neither longing nor enthusiasm belong to the bourgeois. The story of philosophy and the arts under Rousseau's influence has been the search for, or fabrication of, plausible objects of longing to counter bourgeois well-being and self-satisfaction. Part of that story has been the bourgeois' effort to acquire the culture of longing as part of its self-satisfaction.

Allan Bloom, The Closing of the American Mind

[BECOMING-INTENSE]

his mind, like a pastoral landscape, had four corners
to its view: cared-for, friendly, limited, displayed ...

- T.E Lawrence Seven Pillars of Wisdom(1922)

[Philipppp]

Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

Arthur Schopenhauer

[interest1]

^^^ “People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.” -Winnie the Pooh (A.A. Milne)

much as i love John Waters, i'll take Pooh's advice over his


but a small repayment, for your photographic contributions

I adore Winnie the Pooh, but my heart will always be with Eeyore.
Seems that in love, I always go for the ass . . .

[Faust]

I adore Winnie the Pooh, but my heart will always be with Eeyore.
Seems that in love, I always go for the ass . . .

Me too! Love the ass!

[interest1]

I'm not telling you it's going to be easy,
I'm telling you it's going to be worth it.

– the universe
whenever I cry foul / cry wolf ./ or just cry

[Fascinator]

"I believe that man will necessarily revolt against his own kind and that he will not be able to acknowledge himself, nor love himself totally, if he is not the subject of a conviction."

Georges Bataille

[Alseal]

Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity.
William Wordsworth

[lalilulelo]

So long as there is light... there is shadow.

[endorphinz]

Time wounds all heels

.....

[Fascinator]

"A writer who writes, ''I am alone''... can be considered rather comical. It is comical for a man to recognize his solitude by addressing a reader and by using methods that prevent the individual from being alone. The word alone is just as general as the word bread. To pronounce it is to summon to oneself the presence of everything the word excludes."

Maurice Blanchot


"When a captive lion steps out of his cage, he comes into a wider world than the lion who has known only the wilds. While he was in captivity, there were only two worlds for him - the world of the cage, and the world outside the cage. Now he is free. He roars. He attacks people. He eats them. Yet he is not satisfied, for there is no third world that is neither the world of the cage nor the world outside the cage."

Yukio Mishima


"It is very hard to live with silence. The real silence is death and this is terrible. To approach this silence, it is necessary to journey to the desert. You do not go to the desert to find identity, but to loses it, to lose your personality, to be anonymous. You make yourself void. You become silence. You become more silent than the silence around you. And then something extraordinary happens: you hear silence speak."

Edmond Jabès


"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."

Guy Debord