Andrew Boardman
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Andrew Boardman
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It’s obvious that artistic movements need artists. My claim is that they also need critics. Critics help name, describe, and contextualize movements.
Celine Nguyen • Is the Internet Making Culture Worse?
- If it doesn't make sense it's art.
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Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Plato; Or, The Philosopher"
Quotes about Quotes | The Quote Garden
1. THERE IS NO SHORT GAME, ONLY LONG GAME. SHORT GAME IS TOURISM. LONG GAME IS LIVING THERE.
Yancey Strickler • Yancey Strickler (@ideaspace)
As the disease of tyranny progresses, citizens may eventually lose the habits of democracy — the art of persuasion and compromise, interpersonal trust, an intolerance for corruption, the spirit of freedom, the ethic of moderation. “It is easier to crush men’s spirits and their enthusiasm than to revive them,” Tacitus wrote. “Indeed, there comes... See more
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this is today
When I was an “emerging” artist I wanted only to finish emerging.
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Am I happy? Damned if I know, but give me a few minutes and I’ll tell you whether you are.
Sarah Manguso • 300 Arguments
The average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short. But that isn’t a reason for unremitting despair, or for living in an anxiety-fuelled panic about making the most of your limited time. It’s a cause for relief. You get to give up on something that was always impossible – the quest to become the optimised, infinitely capable,
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks
We are not at the center of anything; thankfully. We are miniscule bundles of evanescent matter on an infinitesimal corner of a boundless universe. We do not count one bit in the grander scheme. This is a liberation.
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