May 31 2013
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This stuff is hard to talk about, in large part because artistic choices are often indistinguishable from commercial ones. … The best work is often created in conversation with audiences, not by an artist talking to himself or herself in a windowless room. All art is compromise, too, because we’re working with flawed materials and trying to speak the angels’ secrets in the language of humans.

At io9, a fascinating discussion of what it means to “sell out” and why the term itself is fraught

As Steven Pressfield put it, “To labor in the arts for any reason other than love is prostitution.” 

As Lynda Barry keenly observed, the arts should be “not this thing that is going to get you somewhere, in terms of becoming an artist or becoming famous, but rather a way of making being in the world not just bearable but fascinating.”  

Ultimately, David Foster Wallace nailed it in his now-legendary Kenyon College commencement address: “Selling out is usually more a matter of buying in. Sell out, and you’re really buying into someone else’s system of values, rules and rewards.”

Pair with history’s greatest definitions of art.

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May 30 2013
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May 24 2013
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Soul-warmer of the day: Maira Kalman on happiness and the human condition. Pair with the equally wonderful Fail Safe.

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Soul-warmer of the day: Maira Kalman on happiness and the human condition. Pair with the equally wonderful Fail Safe.

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May 22 2013

And I miss you like I do with the rest so then I can forget you just as how I did with the others.


May 21 2013
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If your degree was focused upon one particular area, don’t let that stop you moving in another direction. If college hasn’t worked out for you, don’t let that put you off…. If you spot an opportunity early on and are really excited by it, throw yourself into it with everything you have got. Be ambitious. There probably won’t be another time in your life when you have such freedom of opportunity. Grasp it with both hands.

Richard Branson’s advice to graduates, echoing Debbie Millman’s fantastic commencement address on courage and the creative life.

Pair with Don’t Go Back to School.

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May 21 2013
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sstain:

If I’m a sarcastic asshole when I talk to you its either because I really like you and feel comfortable teasing you

Or I really hate you and don’t care if you know it

Good luck figuring out which one

The first part is hilariously accurate lol.
I don’t even talk with people I hate tho haha~

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May 15 2013
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Invariably light- The Glass House by AR Design Studio (via contemporist)


May 06 2013
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They mean one thing to one person, another thing to another person; they are unintelligible to one generation, plain as a pikestaff to the next. And it is because of this complexity that they survive. Perhaps then one reason why we have no great poet, novelist or critic writing to-day is that we refuse words their liberty. We pin them down to one meaning, their useful meaning, the meaning which makes us catch the train, the meaning which makes us pass the examination. And when words are pinned down they fold their wings and die.
Virginia Woolf on words. (via explore-blog)

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