Quote of the Day
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Why Cats Paint: A Theory of Feline Aesthetics by Heather Busch/ Burton Silver
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“Our book presents, not theories, but revelations.”
Sunrise or Sunset, study for book, Concealing Coloration in the Animal Kingdom by Abbott Handerson Thayer
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“It’s hard to be creative and it’s also hard not to think what you do
is creative or hard not to be called creative because everybody is
always talking about that and individuality. Everybody’s always
creative. And it is so funny when you say things aren’t, like the shoe I
would draw for an advertisement was called a ‘creation’, but the
drawing of it was not. There are millions of actors. They’re all
pretty good. And how many painters are there? Millions of painters and
all pretty good. How can you say one style is better then another. You
ought to be able to be an Abstract-expressionist next week, or a Pop artist, or a realist, without feeling you’re given up something.”
Mao (1972) by Andy Warhol
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Power of Subconscious Mind Power Techniques, Gregg Braden
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Seed Bombing: How Thailand Plans To Restore Its Forests
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Happiness is the richest thing we will ever own.
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“What I am after, above all, is expression. Sometimes it has been
conceded that I have a certain technical ability but that, my ambition
being limited, I am unable to proceed beyond a purely visual
satisfaction such as can be procured from the mere sight of a picture.
But the purpose of a painter must not be conceived as separate from his
pictorial means, and these pictorial means must be the more complete (I
do not mean complicated) the deeper is his thought. I am unable to
distinguish between the feeling I have for life and my way of expressing
it.”
Henri Matisse: A Master of the Modern Era
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“My painting is based on the fact that only what can be seen there is there. It really is an object. Any painting is an object and anyone who gets involved enough in this finally has to face up to the objectness of whatever it is that he’s doing. He is making a thing.. ..all I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion.. .What you see is what you see.”
Art by Frank Stella
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You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don’t want to be like “As Confucius say,” but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different.
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BEST OF Dumbfoundead
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It’s fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.