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IM AN ARTIST. THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT INSPIRE ME AND THE WORK THAT I MAKE.

Cœur fidèle (The Faithful Heart) by Jean Epstein, 1923

“In water, crystals grow, beautiful as Venus, born as she was, full of the most secret graces, symmetries and correspondences. Games of Heavens, thus, worlds fall — from where? Into a light space.”

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William Powhida Some Criteria For Evaluation, 2013 and What Can We Learn About Art? (panel 1 of 4), 2013

Read about his new show Bill By Bill here.

… Bill By Bill turns out to be an earnest and successful attempt to make thoughtful, content-driven paintings. That is, once you realize that the real art in this show is not the fabricated objects on display but Powhida’s watercolor text pieces that supplement them. Well-crafted and explicit in their intent, these paintings are polar opposites of the redundant, boringly vague artworks that they mock. They depict Powhida’s ideas as handwritten texts scrawled across a piece of notebook paper. The illusion is so satisfying, and the writing so intriguing, you hardly notice that what you are really looking at are representational watercolor paintings created with such care that it’s almost sentimental.

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We need to make books cool again. If you go home with somebody and they don’t have books, don’t fuck them.

—John Waters, turning 67 today! (via bookriot)

losed: West Berlin, 1965, Youths in a park by Leonard Freed

losed:

West Berlin, 1965, Youths in a park

by Leonard Freed

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I do not make art to hang above women’s couches

—Picasso (via lucielleslife)

If I love you more, will you suffer less?

—Elie Wiesel, quoting his five-year-old grandson at Boston University lecture series (via nod)

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i am a patient, she said. i am physician and patient at once. but self-knowledge is not the remedy i prescribe to myself. i want as much self-knowledge as i can get-let me not be deceived-but self-knowledge isn’t the goal i seek. strength, strength is what i want. strength not to endure, i have that and it has made me weak-but strength to act-

—Susan Sontag, Journal & Notebooks, 1958 (via loveouthome)

..like all planets, I turn in my sleep, I’ve been doing it
since before I was born.
My body is a nightmare
it hurts me every day.
I’ve been taught to resent it by boys
trying to forge themselves righteous through conquering.
They knew there was something wrong with me,
it was explained through hands
that spoke only in exclamation points.

—Brian Ellis, excerpt from “Caesarian” (via pigmenting)

According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don’t bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.

—Deepak Chopra  (via mojominx)

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