December 2010
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“If you want to work on your art, work on your life.”
– Anton Chekhov (via theformofbeauty)
Dec 31st
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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Dec 30th
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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)
Dec 30th
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Dec 26th
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Dec 25th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 24th
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Dec 22nd
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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...
Dec 21st
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Dec 21st
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Dec 15th
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Dec 13th
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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...
Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 13th
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Dec 2nd
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