Emma Cohen
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Emma Cohen
To live and work by inspiration you have to stop thinking.
You have to hold your mind still in order to hear inspiration clearly.
You have to hold your mind still in order to hear inspiration clearly.
portrait of the artist and in development
Agnes Martin, Writings, 137
The conscious mind is awareness of the sublime and it tells us what to do by showing us when we are off the track.
Obedience to the conscious mind carries us forward to greater
awareness.
Disobedience of the conscious mind carries us backward to less
awareness.
With more accurate obedience we become rapidly more aware of the sublime: of beauty and happi... See more
Obedience to the conscious mind carries us forward to greater
awareness.
Disobedience of the conscious mind carries us backward to less
awareness.
With more accurate obedience we become rapidly more aware of the sublime: of beauty and happi... See more
Agnes Martin, Writings, 112
When we are disappointed by a pleasure which we have been expecting and which comes, the disappointment is be. cause we were expecting the future. And as soon as it is there, it is the present. We want the future to be there with. out ceasing to be future. This is an absurdity of which eternity alone is the cure.
Weil, Gravity & Grace, 66
Blake Job Illustrations
“you have a headache and you say, ‘I can't even read anymore’; this means that your force of existing invests the trace of the migraine so fully, it implies changes in one of your subordinate relations, it invests the trace of your migraine so fully that your power of acting is diminished accordingly”
Deleuze, “Lecture Transcript on Spinoza’s Concept of Affect” 8
In the night inspiration falls on the world like rain and penetrates our minds when we are asleep.
Agnes Martin, Writings, 118
It is he who, through the operation of the dark night, withdraws himself in order not to be loved as the treasure is by the miser.
Weil, Gravity & Grace, 61
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