“We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.” — Buckminster Fuller (via super-future)
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“The shocking lack of interest in doing things that are truly innovative is a direct byproduct of an educational system that’s aiming toward passable standardized test scores instead of something much greater.” — Start Educating Entrepreneurs, Not Employees (via courtenaybird)
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“From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think that there is only one practical consequence: we have to create ourselves as a work of art. In his analyses of Baudelaire, Flaubert, and so on, it is interesting to see that Sartre refers the work of creation to a certain relation to oneself- the author himself- which has the form of authenticity or inauthenticity. I would like to say exactly the contrary: we should not have to refer the creative activity of somebody to the kind of relation he has to himself, but should relate the kind of relation one has to oneself to a creative activity.” — Michel Foucault (via totrulyexist)
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“Pattern recognition is the new form of work which combines into one the roles of hunter, engineer, programmer, researcher, and aesthete.” — Marshall McLuhan (via theantidote)
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“Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the so-called inspiration… shining down from heavens as a ray of grace. In reality, the imagination of the good artist or thinker produces continuously good, mediocre or bad things, but his judgment, trained and sharpened to a fine point, rejects, selects, connects… All great artists and thinkers are great workers, indefatigable not only in inventing, but also in rejecting, sifting, transforming, ordering.” — Nietzsche (via explore-blog)
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“I think the artist, even more than government, has become the one who is doing long-term thinking about what’s happening, what are the implications, what are we doing to ourselves? And they’re some of the only ones, really. An artist’s job is to sit outside what’s happening and reflect back to us where the human is in this. I think it’s a very valuable exercise. It’s just the opposite exercise of what most people probably think it is. It’s not for technologists to realize the visions of artists. It feels much more like it’s for artists to contextualize the visions of technologists.” — Douglas Rushkoff (via azspot)
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“even for one such as me who could just placidly go along ignoring this whole fuss, I actually have a very powerful motive for throwing everything I have, rhetorically, passionately, emotionally onto the side of the copyleft, and the reason being that the other side tells a lie about what artists do and how they really think and feel and thrive. And also, there is a risk for every artist of damage being done not just to the ethos of how art is made, but to the actual traditions and behaviors. If more and more people really buy into this image of the Promethean isolated creator who’s only legitimate because he invents out of nothing — and it really informs the culture and the laws and the way art is taught and the way art is received — it’s propagating a dangerous befuddlement about how we really go about things. We’re in a really messy area. We pick stuff up and we fool around with it and it’s stuff. It’s stuff that’s around us. Some of it is owned, in some sense, by someone else and some of it isn’t, and sometimes we don’t even know, and sometimes we’re doing it half consciously. And we must. We must do all of these things. There’s no other possibility” — Rhizome | A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem (via jomc)
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“The only way to be creative over time — to not be undone by our expertise — is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don’t fully understand.” — Jonah Lehrer | Quotes on Design (via ninakix)
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“In our culture, not to know is to be at fault socially… People pretend to know lots of things they don’t know. Because the worst thing to do is appear to be uninformed about something, to not have an opinion… We should know the limits of our knowledge and understand what we don’t know, and be wiling to explore things we don’t know without feeling embarrassed of not knowing about them.” — Sir Ken Robinson on the essential role of exploration in finding your element, which in turn changes everything. (via explore-blog)
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“Creativity is not a talent, it is a way of operating” — John Cleese (via brianlucid)
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