December 2010
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LINK - Art museum bans pencils and sketchpads -... →
I can’t believe this… it’s just ludicrous! I usually don’t draw in museums and galleries because I only have enough time to view the works, but it’s such an ingrained practice I don’t know how they could make this rule! Gaw!
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Nothing really exists, but human life is governed by convention
– Diogenes Laertius
Little Joseph by Maxim Velcovsky — Product — Theo →
Creepy candleholder in the shape of a baby’s head
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Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain...
– Simone Weil
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House of Music: Age 103 And Still Designing. The... →
musicofhouse:
above: Eva Zeisel, 2009, photos courtesy of Talisman Photo 103 year old Eva Zeisel continues to amaze. The Hungarian born designer just doesn’t stop. In addition to being an enormous talent, she has a life story as interesting as her work. She was born Eva Amalia…
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Bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art, because it documents human...
– Henry Letham
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One thing, however, did become clear to him [Goldmund] – why so many perfect...
– Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
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Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
– T.S. Eliot
Amazing- I saw this before but can't remember the...
breesiobhan:
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But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and...
– Isaiah 64:8
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Khnum - Egyptian God of Potters/Creation/Waters
Interesting… hadn’t heard this Egyptian creation myth before. (there seems to be hundreds)
from Wikipedia
“In Egyptian mythology, Khnum (also spelled Chnum, Knum, or Khnemu) was one of the earliest Egyptian deities, originally the god of the source of the Nile River. Since the annual flooding of the Nile brought with it silt and clay, and its water brought life to its...
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Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.
– G. K. Chesterton
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A writer — and, I believe, generally all persons — must think that whatever...
– Jorge Luis Borges
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A Dada exhibition. Another one! What’s the matter with everyone wanting to make...
– Max Ernst
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November 2010
28 posts