SN Goenka

You are the first victim of your own anger. This realization is another thing that attracted me to the Buddha's teaching."

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Graffiti

Graffiti is not going away ever

Thomas Corrales
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Poems

Poems are like little magic pills

Loki Muthu 

Tuymans

"I work from a reaction upon images that are already represented because I believe nothing is really original."

—Luc Tuymans

Tuymans

there's a moment where the intelligence goes from my head to my hands."

—Luc Tuymans

Tuymans

"What could be meaningful? Because that's the most important thing: it has to be meaningful for me, otherwise I can't make it."

—Luc Tuymans

Integrity, Punctuality, Keeping your word

"It's super natural, super chill. I view him as a person of high integrity. Always keeps his word, very punctual. These are some of the qualities I have myself."

Jay-Z on Alexandre Arnault 

2021

humiliated

Do not let anyone be humiliated in front of your eyesight....

(don't know who to attribute it to...)

Seema Hari

Spent the day outside and realized nobody can ever steal my joy

Seema Hari 

Joyce Carol Oates

There's a beauty in things as they are.

Joyce Carol Oates

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Joyce Carol Oates

Waiting for me on top of that hill is an idea.

Joyce Carol Oates


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Mr. Bojangles

He looked to me the very eyes of age.

Extract from the song Mr. Bojangles


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Inside

Inside, the lamp is lit and the fire is always burning.


Loki Muthu
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Pramod Babu

I think children are hardened by suffering while adults may be softened. I thought of this analogy earlier today in terms of people's natures being like materials such as metals that react differently to heating and cooling and furthermore produce different effects at different temperatures.


Pramod Babu
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Chaos is now in Production

The chaos is also manufactured - it is now part of "production"

- Pramod Babu


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Pramod Babu

The media is an instrument of demoralization.

Pramod Babu
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Navratilova

*Martina Navratilova* *was once asked, "How do you maintain your focus, physique and sharp game even at the age of 43?"*
*She gave a humble reply, "The ball doesn't know how old I am". You need to stop yourself from stopping yourself. Every game in life is actually played on a 6 inch ground – the space between your two ears. We don't live in bungalows, duplexes or flats. We live in our mind which is an unlimited area. Life is great when things are sorted and uncluttered there. Keeping the mind messy with hatred growing on the table, regrets piling up in corner, expectations boiling in kitchen, secrets stuffed under the carpet and worries littered everywhere ruins this real home. The key factor to performing well in life and in every arena, is the ability to control the quality and quantity of your* *"internal dialogue".* *Performance is potential minus internal interference. Live in peace, not in pieces.*

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Derek Fordjour

Continue to work hard in your studio.

Derek Fordjour

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Derek Fordjour

Hi don't make success. I make art.

Derek Fordjour

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Derek Fordjour

Charcoal allowed me to be free
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Derek Fordjour

It's hard work.

That's the work of an artist.

Derek Fordjour
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Derek Fordjour

You have utmost control in your studio
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Derek Fordjour

Sometimes, arriving at a good place of failure is success.
Derek Fordjour
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Not be there

Don't "Show up" and not be there...
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