“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.” —Grant Wood
Backstory
Gothic revival
A paint job
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow—Grant Wood
Posts tagged ‘Conceptual Art’
Dec 6
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Nov 30
“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums”—Salvador Dali
Dream vision
Inverts perception
Surreally
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams—Salvador Dali
Nov 20
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”—Plutarch
What sense peers
Into the darkness
Hears a light
Why should poetry have to make sense?—Charlie Chaplin
Oct 29
“There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write”—Terry Pratchett
I write like I talk and I don’t get talker’s block—Seth Godin
Idle pen
Or empty ink well
Which came first
Sep 27
“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.” —Lionel Trilling
Artists are low key astronauts. Instead of going to the moon, they sit back in their studio and make the moon
—Michael Bassey Johnson
Sep 17
“You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.” —Chuck Palahniuk
All tales now wending
This one begins
In the alternate endings
Refreshed by rain
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order
—Jean-Luc Godard
“It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you.” —Lendon Gray
Skittish colts
Wobbling knobby knees
Jumping jocks
The wildest colts make the best horses
—Plutarch
“With parody, you’re referencing and sending up a particular genre, and mostly your material is going to be taken out of that genre.” —Marlon Wayans
Tapping lazily, but doggedly, the lovelorn poet composes a song in praise of his dream amour. To deliver it, though, he is demure: cowered by a muzzle like a dog’s, voice like a frog’s, moves like a bump on a log. Oh, for a way to extend his compliments to the one he adores, without rudely awakening her scorn!
I’d like to say that parody is a celebration of a person’s specific characteristics, as opposed to mockery
—Ana Gasteyer
Sep 2
“Letter writing is the only device combining solitude with good company.” —Lord Byron
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Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth
—Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you want to hear the distant voice of the ocean put your ear to the distant lips of a seashell.” —Curtis Tyrone Jones
sand pirates with shovels and pails
excavate tidal pools
capturing waves of wayward whales
soft hermit crabs in shells of snails
urchins on break from schools
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