May 2012
5 posts
“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
– Buckminster Fuller (via super-future)
“The shocking lack of interest in doing things that are truly innovative is a...”
– Start Educating Entrepreneurs, Not Employees (via courtenaybird)
“From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think that there is only one...”
– Michel Foucault (via totrulyexist)
“Pattern recognition is the new form of work which combines into one the roles of...”
– Marshall McLuhan (via theantidote)
“Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the...”
– Nietzsche (via explore-blog)
April 2012
8 posts
“I think the artist, even more than government, has become the one who is doing...”
– Douglas Rushkoff (via azspot)
“even for one such as me who could just placidly go along ignoring this whole...”
– Rhizome | A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem (via jomc)
“The only way to be creative over time — to not be undone by our expertise — is...”
– Jonah Lehrer | Quotes on Design (via ninakix)
“In our culture, not to know is to be at fault socially… People pretend to know...”
– Sir Ken Robinson on the essential role of exploration in finding your element, which in turn changes everything. (via explore-blog)
“Creativity is not a talent, it is a way of operating”
– John Cleese (via brianlucid)
“Think of artworks not as objects but as ‘triggers for experiences’.”
– Brian Eno (via naomijade)
“There really is no excuse for being technoculture illiterate if you’re under 40...”
– Marius Watz - Thoughts on Code and Art
Thank you Mr Watz.
(via notational)
“The culture that will survive is the culture you carry around in your head.”
– Nam Jun Paik quoted in Mark Amerika’s “Remixthebook” (via notational)
March 2012
8 posts
“To the same degree as I dislike those pretentious professions of faith by...”
– Pierre Bourdieu, The Rules of Art (via robert-brydie)
“I dream about a kind of criticism that would try not to judge but to bring an...”
– Michel Foucault (via viafrank)
“The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nedhepburn)
“First, he translates a nerve stimulus into an image! That is the first metaphor....”
– F.W. Nietzsche, On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense (via hollovv)
“for most artists, the problem isn’t piracy, it’s obscurity.”
– tim o’reilly (via raumsinn)
“Our electric extensions of ourselves simply by-pass space and time, and create...”
– Marshall McLuhan, “Understanding Media”, 1964 (via hohaus)
“One of the most satisfying experiences I know is just fully to appreciate an...”
– Carl Rogers (via oatmealcakes)
“I don’t think that people on the Right are deluded, they’re no more stupid than...”
– Gilles Deleuze, “Mediators” (interview, bolded mine)
February 2012
4 posts
“Please, no matter how we advance technologically, please don’t abandon the book....”
– Patti Smith (via libraryland)
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from her Nobel Prize acceptance speech (via kateoplis)
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple...”
– Gall’s law (via Waffle). (via thinkdrastic)
“Let’s accept the role of gardener as being equal in dignity to the role of...”
– Brian Eno (via ummhello)
January 2012
11 posts
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
Most people die...”
– Erich Fromm (via adsertoris)
“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young...”
– Stephen Colbert (via nathanielstuart)
“I don’t distinguish between magic and art.”
– Alan Moore (via nathanielstuart)
“What sets art apart from other technological endeavors is not the innovative use...”
– Jon Ippolito, “Ten Myths of Internet Art” (via saidtotheuniverse)
“We are habits, nothing but habits – the habit of saying ‘I’. Perhaps there is no...”
– Gilles Deleuze (via endofinquiry
)
“For years, Viacom continuously and secretly uploaded its content to YouTube,...”
– YouTube Blog: Broadcast Yourself (via interestingsnippets / infoneer-pulse) (via prostheticknowledge) (via jzp
)
“I’m always buying art books, and they just sit there. Then I grab them in those...”
– Miranda July, 2011 in USA Today (via fuckyeahmirandajuly)
“don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts,...”
– paulo coelho (via sweetpeapath)
“A cause is not a fact— it’s a fiction that helps us make sense of facts.”
– Jonah Lehrer in “Trials and Errors: Why Science is Failing Us” (via jayparkinsonmd
)
“A canvas is not a blank surface. It is already heavy with clichés, even if we do...”
– Gilles Deleuze, “Painting Sets Writing Ablaze” (interview)
“In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It’s...”
– Bruce Sterling (via rem0ved)
December 2011
14 posts
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2011/12/my-new-year-wish.html (via neil-gaiman)
“When you don’t create things, you become defined by your tastes rather than...”
– _why, (via David Tate (via robertogreco)
“Software is eating the world.”
– Marc Andreessen: Predictions for 2012 (and beyond) | Digital Media - CNET News
“All (mental) models are wrong, some models are useful.”
– George Box
“My advice is to do what you can this second. Big plans that rely on other...”
– Miranda July, interviewed by the Guardian (via jackrusher)
“Sadness, sad affects, are those which reduce our power to act. The established...”
– Gilles Deleuze, Dialogues (via sonofapritch)
“If you’re going to go your own way, don’t expect anyone to come with you. If you...”
– Henry Rollins (via nathanielstuart)
“As to those for whom to work hard, to begin and begin again, to attempt and be...”
– Michel Foucault (via foucaultscat)
“To put it very gently, I have a feeling that the philosophical reduction of...”
– Frank O’Hara (via thenmyrasaid
)
“What we commonly call nihilism—and are tempted to date historically, decry...”
– -Hannah Arendt, Thinking and Moral Considerations (via blerchin
)
“It’s not a question of worrying or hoping for the best, but of finding new...”
– Gilles Deleuze, “Postscript on Control Societies” (via sonofapritch)
“Other people’s words are the bridge you use to cross from where you were to...”
– Zadie Smith, “Other People’s Words, Part One,” in Changing My Mind: Occasional Essays (via)
“I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick”
– Maya Deren (via liefdebijtenwonden
)
Bad At Sports: What does it mean to be an artist at the end of the day? What does that mean?
David Shrigley: Um ... it means that you don't have to have a job, basically.