February 2011
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“Just glance at the history of mankind….fighting and fighting; fighting today,...”
– “Notes from Underground” by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via siegfried89)
“May I write words more naked than flesh,
stronger than bone, more resilient...”
– Sappho as quoted in Dictee by Theresa Hak-Kyung Cha
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“If it goes amuck and kills humanity and stuff so sorry lolz my bad!”
– Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings, in a Q&A with the Washington Post, Tuesday, February 15, 2011. Jennings was answering questions about Watson, the IBM computer he was competing against on the syndicated game show. (Spotted by Ivor Tossell)
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“I admire Doris Lessing for calling her science-fiction books science fiction; I...”
– Ursula K. Le Guin, in Guernica. (via thebronzemedal)
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Yves Klein
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“First there is nothing, then a deep nothing, and then there is a blue depth.” [Gaston Bachelard]
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Monotone Symphony (1960) // single 20-minute sustained chord followed by 20-minute silence - - — — - “WITH THE VOID, FULL POWERS”
╋ Albert Camus’ inscription in Klein’s 1958 exhibition guestbook
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via ikorkh)
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“Art is a marriage of the conscious and the unconscious.”
– Jean Cocteau (via jesuisperdu)
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“The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours,...”
– Voltaire (via libraryland)
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“Art washes away the dust of everyday life”
– Pablo Picasso (via wildmanmac)
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“The arts are not a way of making a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (via evertide)
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