beautifully said
turns of phrase worth remembering, sentences that make you feel, or think, or laugh, or cry
beautifully said
The greatest and most important problems of life are all fundamentally insoluble
Carl Jung
Creativity is dangerous. We cannot open ourselves to new insight without endangering the security of our prior assumptions.
– Robert Grudin, The Grace of Great Things: Creativity and Innovation
maintains avant-garde pretensions despite being entirely milquetoast.
Sean Monahan • INTERNET COOL
People who like art like artists, not the galleries that hang the work.
The sublime has given way to the garish, the sacred to the profane.
Opinion | Where Did All the Classy Americans Go? — The Wall Street Journal
From WSJ Where Did All the Classy Americans Go? A beautiful line in an otherwise lacking op-ed
music is what language would love to be, if it could
John O'Donohue • John O’Donohue — The Inner Landscape of Beauty
“I have already settled it for myself so flattery and criticism go down the same drain and I am quite free.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
“Whether you succeed or not is irrelevant, there is no such thing. Making your unknown known is the important thing--and keeping the unknown always beyond you.”
― Georgia O'Keefe
Ours is the work of helping others hold those artifacts and insights in their hands, however briefly, and of considering what ought to be reserved from the ever-sucking vortex of oblivion—and why. It’s the calling known as education, which the literary theorist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak once defined as the “non-coercive rearranging of desire.”