Imagination

It is our imagination that is responsible for love. Not the other person

Marcel Proust
—

Above water

You've got to keep your head above water all the time.....
-lm-
—

Chaos and assholes

The people who create chaos or are being rude and disrespectful and behave like assholes to you are always beneath you.

Remember that.

They are always beneath you.

They don't deserve your time or energy. The best way to deal with them is to ignore them. They just don't exist.

Why go to the circus when you don't believe in clowns



—

Boss

I always want my boss to know my side of the story first....

-lm-

Loki Muthu
—

Stand up

Don't be punched in front of your boss in a crowd....

-lm-

—

Experience

I prefer a total theatrical experience to an analytical experience."

— Ming Cho Lee, theater designer, born 1930 (Read the obituary.)

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MFK - Intertwined

The easiest answer is to say that, like most humans, I am hungry. But there is more than that. It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it."

MFK on her Grandma

Yes, it was very good for us, because we had better manners when Grandmother was around. She demanded them, and she got them. We had one set of manners for Grandmother, one set when she was gone. We always ate well at the table, always ate nicely. We had good manners. Grandmother believed that children should be seen and not heard, you know, except she heard me all the time, reading. She taught me to read. I liked her very much, but I never-I wondered why I didn't love her.

MFK on Growing Old

Yes. Well, I do believe that. I've always liked older people, I've always been interested in them. I think one of the main troubles about modern life is that the older people do not live with the younger people anymore. In the old days -in the "old days," I say now -but when I was a child, it was considered-you had a big house, bigger than teeny, because if the grandparents came, they took upstairs, and then the middle and the older children and the young people lived downstairs. Or vice versa now, but now with the houses, if Grandmother could come, she goes to an old people's home, but by choice, she thinks or somebody chooses for her. And her room is made into a game room or a TV room or something. [unintelligible], maybe. But I don't think that three generations living together is a common rule now.

Santha Rama Rau

"She was such an unusual person," said her stepdaughter Ms. Teal, "that there was almost no occasion on which she didn't attract attention, just by being herself."

—

Telfar Clemens

"Make clothes that do not exist on (folo) the market — just like you don't exist in the world," he wrote. "Don't have any money. Persist for a decade without a single review from the fashion press. Do everything differently. If stores won't buy your clothes, show in museums. If 'beauty' sponsors don't like your skin and hair — make the uniforms for a fast-food chain. Use the money to help bail out hundreds of kids off Rikers Island. Win the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund, use the money to make an 'It' bag, where 'It' has nothing to do with domination. Refuse to be tokenized. Decline invitations. Use 'fashion' to envision a future — that can help destroy the present."

Telfar Clemens

I don't think Telfar is global. I think it's intergalactic

-TC

Relationships

Everybody owns the quality of their relationship with another.

If you value the other person and treat the other person well, then naturally the quality of relationship is a good one.

But if you don't value the person and disrespect the person then naturally the quality degrades....

-lm-
—

Pain

Growths painful.
Change is painful..
But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong...

-Yogimattyg
—

consequence

You face the consequences of your actions and your decisions.

You face the consequences of your inactions and your indecisions.

They are the same 

You blew it

YOU blew it!!

You can blame only YOU for your actions.

You had a good husband.
You treated him badly.
YOU blew it!!!

He gave you a chance to keep the house.
You decided to fight him instead!
Fight him over.....what is best for the kids? 

You blew it!!

You blew it!!

You blew it!!

And guess what?

You will keep blowing it and blowing it and blowing it until one day you will come to realize that YOU are the only one who is responsible for your actions. yes, YOU! 

YOU are the only one who can be blamed for the consequences of your actions !

They will be no one else to blame but YOU!

And you will be forced to put an end to your disease of blaming others!

And then, there will be no one else but YOU.

You are responsible for your actions and your actions have consequences!!! 

OWN your actions! 

ACCEPT the consequences of your actions!

Unless you come to realize this truth - you will continue to keep blowing it.. and blaming others while you are blowing it.

Love light

The real us is pure love, pure light.

 Don Miguel Ruiz

Be what you want

You have the power to be anything. So be what you want. Not just what others want of you. Is that difficult?

Milind Soman

Milind

Physical fitness is the body's ability to withstand physical stress. Mental fitness is the mind's ability to withstand mental and emotional stress.  At any age, the body's ability can be can developed to withstand a stress of a 100m run or a 42 km marathon.  Similarly the minds ability can be developed to adapt to and make the best of any situation. A trained body can do almost anything that we ask of it.

- Milind Soman

The evenings

The evenings we're always together. 

The days are just us running and holding our pants up

James Brolin on his partnership w Barbra Streisand

Daddy

I think our dads watch over us forever.  When you get older and have a decision to make … just close your eyes and ask him for help. And if you listen very carefully, he will lead you to the right choice. I promise!

Love,

Barbra.

Barbara Streisand's letter to George Floyd's daughter

2020 

Barbara Streisand

I still think I'm like most creative people are — confident at times and insecure at times...

Barbara Streisand

Streisand

In some ways, my entire life has been a quest for beauty.

-Barbara Streisand

Busy

Busy is the new stupid

- Nell montgomery

thinking

Thinking is an evolutionary distraction

- Loki Muthu

The Whole

The whole is greater than the sum of its parts..

When good people think it’s good

The answer to whether you think it's good is whether the really good people think it's good

-lm-

—

royalty

Even in a small house,

You can live like royalty

Abnormal

How abnormal things become normal
Topic to be explored
Dogs
Trump

-lm-
—

No volatility

I offer you my place, but I do not offer you any space to create volatility

-lm-
—

Confidence

Confidence projects competence

-lm-
—

Bridge

Honor This Time of Change

I left Point Reyes, a seashore town close to San Francisco, heading for Sequoia National Park. I wanted to cross the Golden Gate Bridge, but I wasn't certain I could find it. City traffic was jarring after being in the woods, the mountains, and by the sea. Before long, however, I found myself at the foot of the Golden Gate. As I drove the span of the bridge, I felt the same electric charge surge through me as I had felt in Chimayo, in Ojo Caliente, and on the Flathead Reservation. It was the first time I realized that bridges are holy, sacred ground. Times of change are holy. We may not know where we're going. It may not feel like our feet are on solid ground. They aren't. We're crossing a bridge to another part of our lives. Sometimes we may find ourselves at this bridge unwittingly, not certain how we got there, not certain we want to cross. Other times, we may have sought, prayed for, hoped for, longed for this time of change. Drive across the bridge. You don't have
to understand it all right now. Information
and understanding will come later. You'll get
to the other side. For now, trust and experience

what you're going through. Know that this
time of change is sacred, too.

—

Ward

The goal of disinformation is to erode people's faith in the idea that truth exists.

Clarissa Ward 

Journalist 

—

Suffer

Sometimes, you should suffer for the benefit of the long term.

God can do all things. God can do anything.

Our doubts and our anxieties are symptoms of our lack of trust in God.

-lm-


—

Doing

Pour the energy that you put into guilt into just doing

-lm-

Developer mindset

Code is nothing but a very specific set of instructions..

-lm-

establishment

You can never be the establishment for anti-establishment

Ang Rita Sherpa

Colleagues say he never saved money or worried about the future. He lived a happy life and enjoyed his retirement days to the fullest. He was living in his home village until his wife, Nima Chokki, died several years ago. He then moved to Kathmandu to live with his daughter, Dolma.

-Ang Rita Sherpa

Go after it

Go after it buddy...

—

Sonny Mehta

"Reading has been a constant in my life.  I have always found comfort in the confines of a book or manuscript.  Reading is how I spend most of my time, is still the most joyful aspect of my day. 

I want to be remembered not as an editor or publisher, but as a reader."

Sonny Mehta

Well

What is done in love is done well...
Van Gogh
—

Peeve

Word used
External stakeholder

Or stakeholder in general


Loki Muthu
—

lack of prep

In a presentation, two things people are highly tuned to:

- Preparation, moreso the lack of it

- The attitude and energy of the presenter

- Content comes last 

Loki Muthu

Diverse

Leadership needs to be diverse
-lm-
—

Step Out

STEP

OUT

-lm

Pammi On Freedom

Being your own person

Thinking your own thoughts

It's amazing 

-Pammi 

Pammi On Freedom

Anyone who is forced to play is not playing

- Pammi 

Pammi on Freedom

You are not beholden to anyone

-Pammi 

Tolle

Where there is anger, there is always pain underneath.....

- Eckhart Tolle

—

Emily

Despite Emily Dickinson's prolific writing, only 10 poems and a letter were published during her lifetime.

Wikipedia
—

Observe

Everybody observes each other

-lm-
—

Dust Arranger

Miles Johnston

Artist, draftsman - calls himself dust arranger!!!!!



—

Say it!!!

When you say it, you expel it!
-lm-
—

Food grooming

Idea for book


Loki Muthu
—

Freedom

Discipline = Freedom

On a t-shirt



—

Reed

Because he believes "any locked area is symbolic of hidden things," he does not have an office or even a cubicle with drawers that close, even at his headquarters. He writes that he might grab a conference room if he needs it but prefers walking meetings...

Reed Hastings

Reed

"Probably it all comes down to, you know, your mother or your father," he murmured...

Reed Hastings 

Ramit

You don't need a writing app. You need to write.

Ramit Sethi
—

Other people

You know what about the other people?
I dont care about them...

Sara Menker
—

Basquiat

You're sort of an automatic.....most of the time!

- Jean Michel Basquiat

High gear

Gods work on high gear


Loki Muthu
—

Bukowski

My heart is 1000 years old.
I am not like other people.

Charles Bukowski
—

Team sport

Democracy is a team sport

Gretchen whitmore
—

Rituals

Entering rituals
And breaking rituals....

Every activity being punctuated by entering rituals at the start and breaking rituals at the end

—

Living

Be out and about.

Live the world.
—

Gods work

Do God's work every day.

—

Life’s work

How are we going to get to a place where God's work is our only work....?

-lm-
—

Leading a life

"Who I am" and "how I lead my life" should be one and the same.


Loki Muthu
—

Rise

Whatever I am challenged by, I rise to the challenge....

-lm-
—

Best work self

"It's only in teams where you have the courage and bravery to be your full self that you can contribute your best."

 

Keith Yamashita
SYPartners Chairman and Founder

—

Immune

Free press is the immune system for democracy

Dr. Seema Yasmin
—

Pammi on Culture

Culture operates in humans largely unconsciously. Cultures that have been around for a long time have layers that the average human cannot penetrate with his conscious mind (but rather is operated on - a sort of puppet). However certain of those layers are called into consciousness by external agents and forced to overstay their welcome. At which point that layer will try to turn on the invisible layers but will only either end up tearing the host apart or be expelled itself from consciousness.
When we apply this to India in the time of Hindutva we see the full effects. Indians have multi dimensional identities most of which exist dimly in consciousness. The imposition of the "Hindu" identity is done not with positive association but rather as anti-Muslim. And the Muslim Indian is likewise pigeonholed. This has been the standard operating procedure in Indian politics where caste divisions have likewise been exploited by the rulers. But caste divisions are more real in the sense that the country's population, being largely made up clans of families bound by endogamy and economy, identifies itself largely on these lines. With the advent of urbanisation and a tentative distancing from this identity, it has become possible to exploit the purely anti-other feeling on a religious basis.
The problem with governing the country on such a basis is that policy formulations will inevitably fail due to the simplistic construction of identity. The coastal Kannadiga is as as likely to differ in their response to policy as the interior Kannadiga who likewise, is as likely to differ as the rural Bihari. India is more like the Amazon culturally than it is like a deciduous forest.
Clearly Hindutva is a fraud - it can never deliver what its adherents think it can deliver because they themselves are deluded by a fragmentary identity that is almost useless in most aspects of daily life. The only question that remains then is - who is perpetrating this fraud and why.
—

Title in NYT

Dog breeding in the neolithic age
—

Charles Webb

As he once told The Boston Globe, "The public's praise of creative people is a mask — a mask for jealousy or hatred." By the couple's various renunciations, he said, "We hope to make the point that the creative process is really a defense mechanism on the part of artists — that creativity is not a romantic notion."

Charles Webb

Author of the Graduate 

—

Is

What it is is also because of what it is not


Loki Muthu
—

Join

We join our kind

—

Glaser

"I know a lot about the way things look, and as a consequence, I try to see how much of that world I can embrace."

Milton Glaser 

—

Mary Oliver

I could not be a poet without the natural world. Someone else could. But not me.

For me the door to the woods is the door to the temple...

- Mary Oliver

—

What God wants me to be

I am going to be more like what God wants me to be.


-lm-

Brand

Brand is what people say about you when you are not there...

Brand is totally about perception...

Dr. Natalie Nixon
—

Organisms

Organizations are actually organisms..

Dr. Natalie Nixon
—

Problem

If you only see one solution to the problem, you don't really understand the problem...

John Maeda in conversation w
Dr. Natalie Nixon
—

Range of people

Ask a range of people how they perceive something...

Dr. Natalie Nixon

—

Can’t see it

If you are in the Cabal, you can't see it!!

- John Maeda in conversation w
Dr. Natalie Nixon
—

Love

Love is a state of being. Your love is not outside. It is deep within you. You can never lose it. And it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the and manifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel The same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation.

This is the realization of oneness.

This is love



Eckhart Tolle

—

Tolle

True salvation is a state of freedom from fear, from suffering, from a perceived state of lack and insufficiency and therefore from all wanting, needing, grasping, and clinging.

It is freedom from compulsive thinking, from negativity, and above all from past and future as a psychological need.

You mind is telling you that you cannot get there from here. Some thing needs to happen, or you need to become this or that before you can be free and fulfilled. It is saying, in fact that you need time that you need to find, sort out, do achieve, acquire, become, or understand something before you can be free or complete.

You see time as the means to salvation, whereas in truth it is the greatest obstacle to salvation. You think that you can't get there from where you are and who you are at this moment because you are not yet complete or good enough.

But the truth is that here and now is the only point from where you can get there.

You "get" there by realizing that you are there already. You find God the moment you realize that you don't need to seek God. So there is no only way to salvation: Any condition can be used, but no particular condition is needed.

However, there is only one point of access: the Now. There can be no salvation away from this moment. You are lonely and without a partner? Enter the Now from there. You are in a relationship? Enter the Now from there.

There is nothing you can ever do or attain that will get you closer to salvation than it is at this moment.

This may be hard to grasp for a mind accustomed to thinking that every thing worthwhile is in the future. Nor can anything that you ever did or that was done to you in the past prevent you from saying yes to what is and taking your attention deeply into the Now. You cannot do this in the future.

You do it now or not at all.


Eckhart Tolle
—

Taxes

Overheard:

I don't know how you pay your taxes.
Do you Venmo the government?



—

Real

Raw and real,
Not clean and corporate...


Loki Muthu
—

Expression

The chief function of color should be to serve expression.

Henri Matisse
—

For Children

Only the very best is good enough for children.

Tomie DePaola

Saturday

I love Saturday because anything is almost possible...

-lm-


Loki Muthu
—

Never

Never in a disrespectful way.

Serena's husband.



—

Polidori

I have an interest in the totality of human culture. I photograph all over the world.
—
Robert Polidori

Polidori

Robert arrives with a virgin eye

—

Polidori

Artists think they are creators. I'm not a creator, I'm a medium. Things are brought to me through a camera. I look at photography as a divinatory process. I point the camera, I ask a question, I need to decipher the answer.

Robert Polidori
—

Dumas

There is no beauty if it doesn't show some of the terribleness of life.

Marlene Dumas
—

Cost

There is a cost to everything not said.

Lm

—

Waste Not

Waste Not

-Rikumo

Threshold

Boundaries are the threshold

Hockney

It is very good advice to believe only what the artists does, rather than what he/she says about his/her work.

David Hockney 

Sketch - Heart

Even the smallest sketch involves the human heart.

David Hockney

Attention to

You become what you give your attention to.

- Epictetus

Leave or accept.

Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness

Eckhart Tolle
—

Inside right

If you get the inside right, the outside will fall into place.

- Eckhart Tolle
—

Daniel Maidman

 What I want to communicate is the miracle of mere being: that we are alive in a world of light and air and color, that we inhabit bodies that are magnificent, graceful machines, that we have been given one another to enjoy this world with. But I have no idea what actually comes across.

Daniel Maidman 

—

Solitude

"Without great solitude, no serious work is possible."

Picasso 

—

Paint more

When I wantedTo commit suicide, the doctor encouraged me to paint more.

Yayoi Kusama
—

Whistleblower

I am a whistle blower on the status quo

-lm-
—

Poem by Hafiz

Fear Is The Cheapest Room In The House

--

Fear is the cheapest room in the house

I would like to see you living

In better conditions,

for your mother and my mother

Were friends.

I know the Innkeeper

In this part of the universe.

Get some rest tonight,

Come to my verse tomorrow.

We'll go speak to the Friend together.

 

I should not make any promises right now,

But I know if you

Pray

Somewhere in this world-

Something good will happen.God wants to see

More love and playfulness in your eyes

For that is your greatest witness to Him.

Your soul and my soul

Once sat together in the Beloved's womb

Playing footsie.

Your heart and my heart

are very, very old

Friends.

Hafiz

Who I am

I can only be who I am


Loki Muthu
—

Self imposed

The poverty of experience is self-imposed and learned.

Loki Muthu
—

Sensual

Every moment is a rich sensual encounter. But it is not apparent. It is just the case that the receptors are dimmed by forceful conditioning of the mind and body.

Loki Muthu


—

W Ford on Audubon

Most natural-history artists today try to make what look like painted photographs, but Audubon gives you that pre-photographic way of looking, where the paper functions as air."

Walton Ford 

—

Walton Ford

That fantastic Winslow Homer image of a fox in the snow, with the crows....

Nobody would say that's just illustration. It's a powerful and romantic work."

Walton Ford

The New Yorker

2009 

—

Masterpiece

The creation is a masterpiece of art...

Don Miguel Ruiz
—

Ruiz

I'm in no hurry

D M Ruiz
—

Movie to watch

Memories of underdevelopment
1968


—

Deborah Roberts - Artist TRUE

"It just gives me time to be greater," Ms. Roberts said, "to really flesh out this work."

In this way, Ms. Roberts exemplifies where many emerging artists find themselves during the coronavirus quarantine, which is where they always are — in their studios, making work that may never sell; deploying well-honed habits of toiling in isolation; and drawing strength from the creative process that has long sustained them.

NYT article 

—

Ruth Macyzk Corbett

 "She would be the one to say, 'Come with me, baby.'"

RIP

Ruth Macyzk Corbett 

Loki Muthu

—

Imagination

Use the inner strength of our imagination. Everything human that we've created comes from that capacity

Jack kornfield 

Tend

 But what you can tend is yourself. 

Jack kornfield 

—

Story

NEW YORK, NY: EXHAUSTED FUNERAL HOME EMPLOYEE CREMATED BY MISTAKE WHILE TAKING A NAP

News Local

By Janice Ellsworth On Apr 11, 2020

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An employee of a New York, Funeral & Cremation Service died yesterday, after being accidentally cremated by one of his coworkers.

According to the Police, 48-year old Michael Jones decided to take a nap one a stretcher after working for sixteen hours straight to the recent influx of dead bodies.

While he was sleeping, another employee mistook him for the corpse of a 52-year old person who died from respiratory issues and moved him to the crematory.

Before anyone could notice the mistake, he had already been exposed to temperatures ranging between 1400 to 1800 degrees Fahrenheit and reduced to ashes.

Jenna Anderson, one of Mr Jones's coworkers, says she heard him scream for about 15 seconds after the crematory was activated.

"At first, we didn't understand where the sound was coming from. When we realized what was happening, it was too late. We shut down the heating system, but he was already dead."

Ms. Anderson claims that the young coworker who caused the accident was a new employee, and had forgotten to check for the toe tag to make sure he had the right body.

Jenna Anderson says she heard the victim scream in agony as the crematory was reducing him to ashes.

The police has opened an investigation to determine the exact circumstances surrounding Mr Jone's death.

Investigators have not ruled out the possibility of filing criminal charges against the employee who caused his death.

The young man could possibly be accused of criminal negligence causing death.

—

Vangogh

Not everything I do is a success, but I would say the work's getting along...

Vincent vangogh


—

Wyeth

Andrew Wyeth trains our eyes to see the world closer and better.

Through his work.

Seeing his work is a kind of training of the eye.


Loki Muthu
—

Wyeth

At 80 years of age, drawing and painting all day, every day, Wyeth works in the splendid isolation afforded by his studios in the hills of rural Chaddsford, Pennsylvania, or on the craggy shore of Port Clyde, Maine. This physical isolation is a reflection of Wyeth's aesthetic sensibility, an extension of his flinty determination to be unmoved by a century that has changed every other thing around him.


David A Ross
—

India

"Coronavirus may die," he added, "but the virus of communal disharmony will be hard to kill when this is over."

NYT

April 12

—

Home

Now I'm home, now I'm free..

Nina Simone
—

Simone

I am keenly aware that I have entered a world that I have dreamed of all my life and that it is a perfect world.

Nina Simone
—

Expose

All I can do is expose the sickness

- Nina Simone
—

Purpose

I could sing to help my people. That became the main stay of my life.

-Nina Simone

—

Shake people

I always thought that I was shaking people up but now I want to go at it more.
I want-to go out it more deliberately. I want to go out it more cold. I want to shake people up so bad That when they leave that Nightclub where i performed, I, I just want them to be to pieces.

- Nina Simone


Loki Muthu
—

Brave Simone

We all wanted to say it, she said it.

Mississippi goddamn.

Nina Simone
—

Prayer

Somebody, say a prayer.

Nina Simone
—

Sometimes

Sometimes I sound like gravel,
Sometimes I sound like coffee and cream

- Nina Simone
—

Choice

I never thought about a choice.

- Nina Simone
—

Bach

And this Bach, I liked him.

- Nina Simone
—

Food is love

Food is Love
—

Zoo

The Bronx zoo is empty.
The animals don't seem to mind.

NYT
April 3 2020


—

facts

give me the facts unjaded by your opinion

andrew cuomo 

Truth

If we armor with the truth of what is going on....

-lm-
—

Ux

Use your UX skills to transform your life.

The system is broken
Fix it!

Use UX to re-imagine everything!

Designing applications is a very small subset.

Designing everything around you, changing systems, structures, changing processes, changing the world around you through the intent of design is fitting and life-transforming to a designer.





—

Wants

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

Epictetus
—

Instrument

Learn to use this instrument effectively.
This instrument of body mind and soul.
Use it together well (unison) and in harmony.


What you say is what you think
What you think is what you say
No lag
No delay



Loki Muthu
—

Safe

When you feel unsafe, it's incredibly hard to live happily are fully.

-Zabelita

—

on work culture

Everybody is out to get everybody all the fucking time....

-lm-

Be relevant

Be relevant

Lm

Wake up
Kick some ass every day.
Be relevant!

—

More work

Less chatter, more work

--

lm

Reduce noise

Improve signal to noise ratio

Fake work

People who don't work, love fake work 

-lm-

Solution not problem

go to people with solutions, not problems.

Always

Kind. Courteous. Responsive
—

Writing with drawing

My drawings are not illustrations for what has been already said,
You actually write with your drawing and for me, very easily,
it is a kind of writing with drawing.

Satrapi



—

Operational excellence

By the time they ask you something,
They already wanted it.


-lm-
—

Coal fire

Don't ignore the coal-fire


- Titanic new theory
—

Careful

"I'm extremely careful about what I really want to do, and I have to be happy doing it, so I haven't just wasted my time and my life."

Satrapi 

Satrapi

You know, my hospitality will always be Iranian. I've been brought up this way. The doors of my house are always open.

Marjane satrapi 

Satrapi

 you know, it's time to consider each other simply as human beings. It's just a good beginning, I think.

Marjane satrapi 

—

Pammi’s philosophy

Simplify.
Reduce.

Book to read

Capital
- Rana Das Gupta

—

Movies to watch

Seventh seal
Persona

- Bergman

—

Life

You must be a leader of your own life...

—

Predictable

I cannot be predictable

Lm
—

Prince

Prince
—

Buy the ticket

Buy the ticket.
Take the ride.

—

Don't be a cheap MF

—

Want

I want some of that


-//-

Be prepared to work for wanting some of that.

Dylan

The purpose of art is to stop time

Hurley

Direction is the final ingredient in portraiture

- Peter Hurley

Hurley

Work on yourself

"Not possible without working on yourself"

Observation

All art is based on the power of observation

- Alexis Buryk

Next

I never know what I am going to do next
- Stephen Fry

Wrong

Stop looking at what's right in the picture.
Look at what's wrong

- Sal Cincotta

Awkward

As creative types,
We are the queen and king of awkward

- Sal Cincotta

Physical

Photographer is such a physical art

- Alexis Buryk

Lack of

Lack of empathy is visible


- Alexis Buryk

Deliver

Deliver for yourself

-Alexis Buryk

Muscle

Creativity is a muscle
-Alexis Buryk

Greg Gorman

I begin very very close

- on taking portraits

Themes

Be responsible for your life.
Don't give the responsibility of your life to some-one else

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Natural world
Black ink
Large scale works
Patterns
Shapes
Words and image
Faces
The beauty of the world we live in
Color harmony
Rough on the edges
Poetic

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- Routine process - embedded in daily rituals
- daily meditation
- capture of ideas in a central place
- post your work regularly
- seek mentors and share work
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Existed

In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed.

Mary Oliver

You

Ask what you want.
Be where you want to be.
Do what you want to do.

Lm
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Anyway

You do it anyway
Lm

Untaught

"It is only when what can be taught is working in perfect harmony with what cannot be taught that a work of art results." 

—Harold Speed, 1873

Substance

Do not do it for effect.
Do it for substance.

Lm

Nabokov

The leaves mingle in my memory with the leather of her shoes and gloves, and there was, I remember, some detail in her attire ( perhaps a ribbon on her Scottish cap, or the pattern of her stockings]'s that reminded me then off the rainbow spiral in a glass marble. I still seem to be holding that wisp of iridescence, not knowing exactly where to fit it, While she runs with her loop ever faster around me and finally dissolves among the slender shadows cast on the graveled path by the interlaced arches of it's low looped fence.

Extract from "Speak memory"
Nabokov

Ask

Ask for what you want

Play

He always told me, "Play." That's what I did.

- Pharoah Sanders on John Coltrane 

I don’t even know myself

Right now, I don't even know myself!

- Pharoah Sanders

People

The firm is just a collection of people...

- lm -

Life

Food
Exercise
Sleep
Leisure

- doctor in a video