I know my mouth is agape and my eyes are wide, but I'm relieved that hope isn't a tangible thing, because everyone around me would see mine crumbling. ―Colleen Hoover, Hopeless Public Domain image via Max Pixel
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Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. The narrator's voice in the tribal assembly is not enough to relate the myth. One needs special times and places, exclusive meetings; the words alone are not enough, … Continue reading Quote for Today: Italo Calvino
An Obscure Sign: Totem by Katherine McDaniel
What do you see in this spontaneous drawing? I draw first and find meaning later, so you can't be wrong. This drawing is entitled Totem because of its vague resemblance to Native American totems, signs that embody spiritual attributes of a clan, tribe or family. It is what I call a spontaneous drawing, in which … Continue reading An Obscure Sign: Totem by Katherine McDaniel
Quote for Today: Gilles Deleuze
Signs imply ways of living, possibilities of existence, they are the symptoms of an overflowing or exhausted life. But an artist cannot be content with an exhausted life, nor with a personal life. One does not write with one's ego, one's memory, and one's illnesses. In the act of writing there's an attempt to make … Continue reading Quote for Today: Gilles Deleuze
Quote for Today: Christina Enevoldsen
The inability to get something out of your head is a signal that shouts, “Don’t forget to deal with this!” As long as you experience fear or pain with a memory or flashback, there is a lie attached that needs to be confronted. In each healing step, there is a truth to be gathered and … Continue reading Quote for Today: Christina Enevoldsen
Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. And one of our ancient methods … Continue reading Quote for Today: John Steinbeck
Quote for Today: Bret Easton Ellis
I come to a red light, tempted to go through it, then stop once I see a billboard sign that I don’t remember seeing and I look up at it. All it says is "Disappear Here" and even though it’s probably an ad for some resort, it still freaks me out a little and I … Continue reading Quote for Today: Bret Easton Ellis
Quote for Today: M. Night Shyamalan
People break down into two groups when they experience something lucky. Group number one sees it as more than luck, more than coincidence. They see it as a sign, evidence, that there is someone up there, watching out for them. Group number two sees it as just pure luck. A happy turn of chance. I'm … Continue reading Quote for Today: M. Night Shyamalan
An Art Overlooked: The Making of Neon Signs
Sometimes we fail to see the craftsmanship that surrounds us. Is the impressive art of neon sign making becoming extinct? Neon signs have been an eye-catching way to advertise in large cities around the world for a century. Debuting in 1910 in an exhibition by George Claude, founder of Air Liquide, at the Paris Motor Show, their … Continue reading An Art Overlooked: The Making of Neon Signs
Quote for Today: Haruki Murakami
Beyond the edge of the world there’s a space where emptiness and substance neatly overlap, where past and future form a continuous, endless loop. And, hovering about, there are signs no one has ever read, chords no one has ever heard. ―Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore