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!
Dec 14th
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“Nothing really exists, but human life is governed by convention”
– Diogenes Laertius
Dec 10th
Little Joseph by Maxim Velcovsky — Product — Theo →
Creepy candleholder in the shape of a baby’s head
Dec 9th
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“Art is the symbol of the two noblest human efforts: to construct and to refrain...”
– Simone Weil
Dec 9th
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Dec 8th
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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…
Dec 8th
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“Bad art is more tragically beautiful than good art, because it documents human...”
– Henry Letham
Dec 8th
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“One thing, however, did become clear to him [Goldmund] – why so many perfect...”
– Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund (1930)
Dec 7th
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“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”
– T.S. Eliot
Dec 5th
Amazing- I saw this before but can't remember the...
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Dec 5th
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Dec 5th
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“But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and...”
– Isaiah 64:8
Dec 4th
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Dec 4th
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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...
Dec 4th
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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
Dec 3rd
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“A Dada exhibition. Another one! What’s the matter with everyone wanting to make...”
– Max Ernst
Dec 2nd
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November 2010
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