May 2012
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“Two aesthetics exist: the passive aesthetic of mirrors and the active aesthetic...”
– Jorge Luis Borges
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i could fill these notebooks with nothing in particular but a habit, a feeling- or more importantly- a work, a practice. And this would serve me well.
“I don’t know how to approach you. Only come to me—get closer and closer to me....”
– Henry Miller to Anais Nin, (March 13th 1932) (via philphys)
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“You said
is there anything which
is dead or alive more beautiful
than my...”
– E. E. Cummings (via shesinacoma)
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As sad as it is, being alone- and all the loneliness it entails- makes me more productive. It’s sad that sadness fits my work.
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“We can destroy only as creators. -But let us not forget this either: it is...”
– Fiederich Nietzsche
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How does the way one establishes order among diverse things impact subjectivity? How does the way one interacts with the space laid out before them impact them as a subject? When one is aware of embodying a middle area between the predefined space of knowledge and the complete unknown, what is the who of knowledge then? Is this subject creative, and how?
(via expandingground)
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“One thing is needful.- To ‘give style’ to one’s character- a...”
– Friederich Nietzsche
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“Art is endless like a river flowing,
passing, yet remaining, a mirror to the...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, from “The Art of Poetry” (via the-final-sentence)
I do have to say, I am far from something so close to me.
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“Pero
si cada día,
cada hora,
sientes que a mí estás destinada
con dulzura...”
– Pablo Neruda
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“Morality trains the individual to be a function of the herd and ascribe value to...”
– Friederich Nietzsche (interestingly, in present day, one could easily replace morality above with capital.)
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“Who has not sat before his [or her] own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
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“From the idea that the self is not given to us, I think that there is only one...”
– Michel Foucault
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“Living is more a question of what one spends than what one makes.”
– Marcel Duchamp (via naranjitoo)
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“Artists have a vested interest in our believing in the flash of revelation, the...”
– Nietzsche (via explore-blog)
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“We have hardly any remnant of the idea in our society that the principal work of...”
– Michel Foucault
April 2012
33 posts
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“A good book is an education of the heart. It enlarges your sense of human...”
– Susan Sontag (via vickychou)
