naga sreya thommandra
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naga sreya thommandra
can give meaning to your art pieces after they are already made? i feel like not everything is created with a purpose but ends up with one at the end.
Though artists generally aren’t aware of it, that end work is a by-product of a greater desire. We aren’t creating to produce or sell material products. The act of creation is an attempt to enter a mysterious realm. A longing to transcend. What we create allows us to share glimpses of an inner landscape, one that is beyond our understanding. Art is
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Taking notes, I’ve come to realize, is a form of collecting. I’ve never been interested in collecting physical things, but when it comes to beautiful literary quotes, I have thousands of notebook entries.
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cool phrases that inspire me to make some art
if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it just may be a duck
that remains to be seen
EXCUTE an idea
is this the hill you want to die on
my mind is running a million mils per hour
i just wanna k.i.s.s. (keep it simple stupid)
feeling lost or unwanted is like the boba left in your cup after all the drink is gone
creativity is like a spark, passed from one person to another, one idea to another
One of the most intelligent case studies in design is the Chinese tea cup. They’re made without handles simply because if it’s too hot to touch, it’s too hot to drink.
Humans naturally want to add more. Add a cardboard sleeve, add a warning on the outside of the cup, add a handle. The result of all these things never cools down the actual contents.
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“At the same time, art cannot be understood in terms of purpose. As the sculptor Charles Ray has said, art is “for absolutely nothing.” To make, or experience, art is to enter a kind of free zone; it slows us down, places us in some epistemological estuary, takes us into the wild. We make art from our flaws, fragilities, perversities, from our need
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