MAKING ART
“We are debris arrangers. Equipped with what we have inherited, we try to make a life, make a living and make art. We are assemblers. We forge received parts into meaningful compositions. This state of affairs is our plight and our destiny, but it also offers the opportunity to find meaning as well as to find communion with others.”
― Anne Bogart, ... See more
― Anne Bogart, ... See more
Anne Bogart Quotes (Author of A Director Prepares)
A Manifesto by Martin Parr — Ten Rules of Photography for Emerging Photographers
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somehow, they still made time to create art, almost as if art isn’t optional for humans.
John Green • The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet
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I think of each production as a Tower of Babel. Everybody comes in with different training, speaking different languages, and you have four weeks to speak the same language.
Sarah Ruhl • BOMB Magazine | Sarah Ruhl
– Paula Vogel
Do network like mad, go to new play festivals, offer people a mid afternoon iced latte in exchange for an informational meeting, Google theaters, have a website, befriend writers and directors, invest energies in things other than theater, be interested in the world around you and be an interesting person yourself. Know what makes you unique and wh... See more
Beth Blickers on When to Approach an Agent
Ours is indeed an age of extremity. For we live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters. For one job that fantasy can do is to lift us out o
... See moreAs Frank Kermode argued in his classic 1967 book The Sense of an Ending, we resist the idea that we live in the middle of history, unable to know how it all ends or to be a part of the climactic drama. To make sense of life, Kermode wrote, “we need fictions of beginnings and fictions of ends, fictions which unite beginning and end and endow the int... See more
Dorian Lynskey • ‘End of the World Vibes’: Why Culture Can’t Stop Thinking About Apocalypse
Anti-Stairs Club Lounge [Wassaic Project]