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undr: Don Hong-Oai

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Don Hong-Oai

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength"

Fri, 23 Nov 2012 16:54:23 -0500

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength””

- St. Francis de Sales

(via iloverainandcoffee)

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genevastone: Such a wonderful film.

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genevastone:

Such a wonderful film.

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"As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do."

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“As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.”

- Andrew Carnegie (submitted by peacelovemusicfaith)

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yama-bato: For lost loved ones.

Wed, 31 Oct 2012 04:17:08 -0400

yama-bato:

For lost loved ones.

"The more you document your own life, the more you check in, you tweet, the more you post photos of..."

Sat, 27 Oct 2012 14:53:54 -0400

“The more you document your own life, the more you check in, you tweet, the more you post photos of what you did last night, the more you do all of this stuff, or even in my case, the more you listen for little lines of dialogue that can make their way into stories, the more you photograph moments, in a way, the more you start to step out of those moments, and if you do that too much, you become a spectator to your own life.”

- Jonathan Harris (via onlinecounsellingcollege)

"He who works with his hands is a laborer. He who works with his hands and his head is a..."

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 07:38:07 -0400

“He who works with his hands is a laborer.
He who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman.
He who works with his hands and his head and his heart is an artist.”

- Louis Nizer (via monamade)

crane-machine: Came across this print of Philip Wilson Steer’s...

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:02:36 -0400

crane-machine:

Came across this print of Philip Wilson Steer’s painting “The Blue Girl” at the New York Public Library Picture Collection. I thought she looked pretty familiar, haha.

crashinglybeautiful: How to look at art johnmartz: I saw a lot...

Thu, 04 Oct 2012 03:13:05 -0400

crashinglybeautiful:

How to look at art

johnmartz:

I saw a lot of this at the Picasso exhibit at the AGO.

austinkleon:

Edward Tufte has an interesting pamphlet called SEEING AROUND — in it he talks about how important it is to make the label and description the last thing you look at when you look at art in a museum:

Pre-installed narratives, categories, metaphors, points of view, and deformation professional all interfere with how and what we see. In looking at art, once story-telling starts, it’s hard to see anything else….

For a while… let the artwork stand on its own. Walk around, see intensely, view from up down sideways close afar above below, enjoy… Your only language is vision.

Joe Brainard said the same thing:

the first thing to do when looking at a work of art was to do just that—look. Let your eyes take in what is in front of them. Look at a picture from different distances. Look away and then look back, but, since each picture suggests a visual starting point in it, choose a different point each time you look. At this stage, try not to have any thoughts about the work, such as where it fits in the artist’s oeuvre or in art history or social history. You can do that later. If you allow such thoughts at this point, they will distance you from your seeing.

Something I try really hard to do now when I look at art — and as Goodfellas shows us, it’s so much more fun to make up your own stories about a painting…