Posts from the ‘Quotes’ Category
Feb 17
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Creative vacuum
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
“There was an exhibition in Munich in 1937, ‘Degenerate Art,’ which included work by Klee, Kandinsky, Beckmann and many others. The work was called ‘sick’ and put in the trash heap.” —Hans Haacke
Junkyard art
Treasury of trash
On the block
Trash has given us an appetite for art.
—Pauline Kael
Jun 9
“A beautiful thing is never perfect.” — Egyptian proverb*
This series stems from the portable document technology made of the stems of Egypt’s Nile grass: the papyrus sedge also called paper reed. Inked in the language of pictorial images and phonetic symbols, it was the new medium of an ancient message.
Keep away from trouble and sing to it. —Egyptian proverb*
*The Egyptian proverbs quoted throughout this post are from Hanna Fielding’s favourites.
May 10
“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we’re awake.” ― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
— William Butler Yeats
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