October 2011
12 posts
“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, trans. Thomas Common (via proustitute)
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in...”
– Marcel Proust
thanks to La Lettre
(via billyjane)
“Morality, like art, means drawing a line someplace.”
– Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
“C’est au moment où l’on triche pour le beau que l’on est artiste.”
– Max Jacob, Art poétique (via deligne)
2 tags
“Let me tell you a wonderful old joke from communist times.
A guy was sent from...”
– Slavoj Žižek at Occupy Wall Street (via kateoplis)
5 tags
“People ask me, ‘Don’t you ever run out of ideas?’ In the first place I don’t use...”
– Robert Rauschenberg (via merrickb)
4 tags
“Those who make antitheses by forcing the words are like those who make false...”
– Blaise Pascal, Pensées, quoted in Rudolf Arnheim’s “Entropy and Art: An Essay on Order and Disorder.” (via touslesdeux)
“Sexy is a strange thing. I’m not sure it has to do with sex. Sexy has to do with...”
– Christopher Walken
(via deadeyesyouarelikeme)
9 tags
“A work of art need not contain any statement of a political or of a social or of...”
– Ezra Pound, from “Patria Mia,” in Selected Prose: 1909-1965 (via proustitute)
1 tag
“Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with the 130...”
– Warren Buffett (via youmightfindyourself)
