February 2012
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July 2011
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“that man over there
says that women need to be helped into carriages,
and...”
– sojourner truth
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February 2011
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“And you train yourself in the art of being a riddle to everyone. My young...”
– soren kierkegaard
January 2011
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“Q: I don’t think you have a very good voice. But you are a singer. How do...”
– david byrne, interview with himself
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December 2010
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“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.”
– Anton Chekhov (via theformofbeauty)
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“Don’t ever think I fell for you, or fell over you. I didn’t fall in love, I rose...”
– Toni Morrison, “Jazz” (via ancestryinprogress)
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Black Art by Amiri Baraka
Poems are bullshit unless they are
teeth or trees or lemons piled
on a step. Or black ladies dying
of men leaving nickel hearts
beating them down. Fuck poems
and they are useful, wd they shoot
come at you, love what you are,
breathe like wrestlers, or shudder
strangely after pissing. We want live
words of the hip world live flesh &
coursing blood. Hearts Brains
Souls splintering...
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letters to a young artist
I believe that fundamental to becoming an artist is understanding the position of an artist, rehearsing that position, and practicing that position. It is from that position that you will develop an eye, an ear, and a heart.
We do that by learning how to step outside of given situations to watch, to listen and to feel, and to feel as others as much as to feel things about others. Feeling as...
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November 2010
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