Posts from the ‘Artists’ Category
May 29
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May 12
“Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.” ― Søren Kierkegaard
When there’s nothing else he’d rather do, a writer on a raft, idles on the tide. This series of picture poetry is an artist’s impressions of words which emerge from idling well.
It is better to idle well than to work poorly.
— Anon
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Apr 6
“Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.” ― Rainer Maria Rilke
To welcome this spring’s new beginning of time for every purpose under the sun, the task of the arts, like that of the sciences, is to say something about Nature.
It is wrong to think that the task of physics is to find out how Nature is. Physics concerns what we say about Nature.
— Niels Bohr
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Feb 17
“Paradox reconciles all contradictions.” ― Patrick Leigh Fermor
Creative vacuum
Cacophony of silence
All the rest is noise
How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.
— Niels Bohr
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Dec 31
“During the holiday season, it’s easy to forget that sometimes the best gift of all is simply the gift of time. I can’t think of anything a writer would appreciate more than being given time and space to work.” — Kate Klise
Thank you, each human reading this, for the gift of your time. May we each use the license in 2025, to work at our unique occupations, in accordance with our natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else; so that…
All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each human* works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else. —Plato
*On the eve of its expiration, we used 2024’s poetic license to substitute “human” for “man” in the Brainyquote. com version of the Plato quote. All genders of Platonic lovers studied at Plato’s Academy. Only the ancient Greek gods and goddesses, nymphs and satyrs, et al., and animals were excluded by the masculine noun for human. We did it, so that, some 2300 New Years hence, Plato’s tongue gets no human’s tunic in a twist.
Bonne anee!
Dec 2
“A work of art is a world in itself reflecting senses and emotions of the artist’s world.” — Hans Hofmann
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that’s what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
— Shakira
Oct 15
“Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.” — Abbie Hoffman
Acquired taste
Bison on the range
Savage fare
In time, foods such as hamburgers and ice cream became more than just meals. They became part of American history and culture
— Michael Leunig
Oct 6
“When people get older, they get bitter or get cute.” — Kim Shattuck
Where an old boy’s acute frown’s a cute grin upside-down, “Monsieur Rose” turns it around. From France, Philippe Katerine’s art movement – le mignonisme (“the cuteness”) – turns up around his birthday in Pepe’s hometown, when most acute’s his frown.
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life’s work – often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.
— Michael Leunig
Aug 23
“A mystery is a whodunit. You know what happened, but not how or who’s behind it.” — M. J. Rose
Who’s hints leave a trace,
Who’s prints fit the frame.
Clues cut to the chase.
A signet stakes claim.
Fake sleuths get the case.
Whodunit takes blame.
Round up the usual suspects! —Fake prefect of police, Casablanca
Upstairs maid?
Butler bot? Mac hack?
Palette knife?
Even a cat has things it can do that AI cannot. —Fei-Fei Li
Jul 2
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