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"What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense."

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:16:51 -0400

“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”

- The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka (via e-ntre)

"And so I’m not terrified of changing - in fact I’m terrified of exactly the opposite. If you’re not..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 19:15:59 -0400

“And so I’m not terrified of changing - in fact I’m terrified of exactly the opposite. If you’re not moving, then you’re heading to rot.””

- -Robert Rauschenberg, from an interview with Barbara Rose, 1987. (via robertrauschenberg)

I’m printing this out for my next group crit when (inevitably) the topic of how my work ‘won’t settle down’ comes up.

"When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:23:18 -0400

“

When was super depressed, I wasn’t working—I was always too depressed. Hemingway did his best work when he didn’t drink, then he drank himself to death and blew his head off with a shotgun. Someone asked John Cheever, “What’d you learn from Hemingway?” and he said “I learned not to blow my head off with a shotgun.” I remember going to the Michigan poetry festival, meeting Etheridge Knight there and Robert Creeley. Creeley was so drunk—he was reading and he only had one eye, of course, and had to hold his book like two inches from his face using his one good eye. But you look at somebody like George Saunders—I think he’s the best short story writer in English alive—that’s somebody who tries very hard to live a sane, alert life.

You’re present when you’re not drinking a fifth of Jack Daniel’s every day. It’s probably better for your writing career, you know? I think being tortured as a virtue is a kind of antiquated sense of what it is to be an artist.

”

- In an interview with The Fix, Mary Karr debunks the toxic mythology that it is necessary to be damaged in order to be creative. My own vehement defiance to that mythology is what led me to choose Ray Bradbury – the ultimate epitome of creating from joy rather than suffering – as the subject of my contribution to The New York Times’ The Lives They Lived.

Pair with Karr on why writers write.

(via explore-blog)

It took me a long time to understand this.

When creating while depressed (and sometimes drinking) my work felt I was yelling underwater while waves crashed overhead. Unstructured and flailing efforts. There were occasions when my inhibitions and barriers were lowered enough that I did face some things that I had buried deep but that can be a fine line to dance on.

I don’t regret those times, it was part of my growth process. I don’t know if it had to happen the way it did but I am in a much better place today and I know I’m heading in the right direction so I see no point in saying I should’ve done something differently.

My work is still exploring some rather dark subject matter (which I haven’t posted anywhere, I’m keeping it close at the moment) but it feels different. There is a level of disconnect from the awful events I’m still trying to make sense of but my therapist thinks I’m doing it in a healthy way. I’m confronting it and putting things into a context that I have established, not being overwhelmed, reacting and creating out of desperation.

I don’t know if it’s my best work but it doesn’t matter. There’s a clarity and focus that I’m finding that feels right… and my work isn’t tearing me apart.

sebastiengorla: © Sébastien Gorla

Fri, 24 May 2013 17:01:08 -0400

sebastiengorla:

© Sébastien Gorla

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Fri, 24 May 2013 17:00:03 -0400

thesunshinesinthebedroom: Anton Kammerl

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:55:42 -0400

thesunshinesinthebedroom:

Anton Kammerl

"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that..."

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:25:21 -0400

“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.”

- Deepak Chopra (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

artruby: Donald Judd. gorgeous

Fri, 24 May 2013 11:24:36 -0400

artruby:

Donald Judd.

gorgeous

yama-bato: Anselm Kiefer Aschenblume 2007-2012Oil, emulsion,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:35:17 -0400

yama-bato:

Anselm Kiefer

Aschenblume

2007-2012Oil, emulsion, acrylic, shellac and chalk on canvas380 x 280 cm (149.61 x 110.24 in)

http://ropac.net/selected_works/anselm-kiefer

don’t care if i already reblogged this, don’t care, it’s Kiefer.

ephemeralol: Robert Irwin Garçon. 96” x 45-1/2” x 4-1/2”...

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:32:09 -0400

ephemeralol:

Robert Irwin

Garçon. 96” x 45-1/2” x 4-1/2” (243.8 cm x 115.6 cm x 11.4 cm).

fuckin’ a robert irwin. his bio is up on my reading list next (again).

blushingcheekymonkey: peter peri (2007)

Thu, 23 May 2013 18:30:53 -0400

blushingcheekymonkey:

peter peri (2007)

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Thu, 23 May 2013 18:30:18 -0400

mysilentartworld: ‘Body ’ © by Kasia Gawron

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:28:03 -0400

mysilentartworld:

‘Body ’ © by Kasia Gawron

yama-bato: anselm kiefer die bösen Mütter 2007-2011Oil,...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:58:12 -0400

yama-bato:

anselm kiefer

die bösen Mütter

2007-2011Oil, emulsion, acrylic, shellac, chalk, branches, wood and iron on canvas380 x 560 x 100 cm (149.61 x 220.47 x 39.37 in)

http://ropac.net/selected_works/anselm-kiefer

Anselm Kiefer was the first artist I fell in love with and his work will always hold a special place...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:41:31 -0400

Anselm Kiefer was the first artist I fell in love with and his work will always hold a special place in my heart.

yama-bato: Anselm Kiefer Glaube Hoffnung Liebe 1986. collection...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:39:31 -0400

yama-bato:

Anselm Kiefer Glaube Hoffnung Liebe 1986. collection of AGNSW.

http://www.artinfluence.com/whyartmatters.html

"Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers. Let me keep company..."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:38:28 -0400

“

Let me keep my distance, always, from those
who think they have the answers.

Let me keep company always with those who say
“Look!” and laugh in astonishment,
and bow their heads.

”

- Mary Oliver, from “Mysteries, Yes” in Evidence (via litverve)

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Thu, 23 May 2013 13:36:45 -0400

"and I am tugging at roots waiting to bloom."

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:35:33 -0400

“and I am tugging at roots
waiting to bloom.”

- Elaine Low, from “Impatience” (via weissewiese)

yama-bato: JASON / Anselm Kiefer1990, Stuttgart, 245 x 275 x...

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:34:57 -0400

yama-bato:

JASON / Anselm Kiefer
1990, Stuttgart, 245 x 275 x 8

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