Posts tagged ‘Creative writing’
Apr 12
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Oct 26
“Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.” — Edward de Bono
Images and words are processed by, respectively, the rear and right, and left and front lobes of the human CPU. Those in this series are processed by the fan. A cool processing unit reboots all the lobes and makes your brain laugh.
We don’t laugh because we’re happy – we’re happy because we laugh.
— William James
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Nov 27
“Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos” —Stephen Sondheim
Heaving to
Order in chaos
Charts of art
Art is messy, art is chaos – so you need a system —Andrew Stanton
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Jul 8
“What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine” —Alex Steffen
Pepe’s Pods
Inspiring caffeine
Artistry
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons —T. S. Eliot
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Jun 13
“Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art” —Anselm Kiefer
Out of Nah
Foreshadow of art
It’s all Yah
If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness —Tadao Ando
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May 15
“Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life” —Oscar Wilde
Life goes on
Imitating art
Which is long
Art is not a study of positive reality, it is the seeking for ideal truth —John Ruskin
May 1
“MFA programs are to the world of art what gentrification is to your neighborhood” —Sarah Schulman
Storied blocks
of gilded lilies
Stoop to gag
A good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation —James Boswell
Apr 19
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?” —Jack Kerouac
Once the hare
Wisdom’s souvenir
Tortoise taught
We often attribute ‘understanding’ and other cognitive predicates by metaphor and analogy to cars … but nothing is proved by such attributions —John Searle
Dec 23
“Ideas come from life: what happens in mine, what I see happening in others’, mixed with a great deal of imagination. I might see a person in a grocery store and build a whole character and life out of what’s in her basket”—Elizabeth Berg
Smart baskets
Picnic in Paris
On their bikes
Even the simplest wicker basket can become priceless when it is loved and cared for through the generations of a family—Sister Parish
Nov 15
“In art, the obvious is a sin”—Edward Dmytryk
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