Art - Kiefer

Is a process for me 

I'm not interested in the end 

Anselm Kiefer 

Kiefer on art

To do something, what is not so controlled… 

Anselm Kiefer 

Stop

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping 

Thich nhat hanh 

Pablo Milanes

I am a worker who labors with songs, doing in my own way, what I know best, like any other Cuban worker. I am faithful to my reality, to my revolution and the way in which I have been brought up. 

Inflict harm

Art is not blameless. Art can inflict harm 

Richard Taruskin 

Work

The reward of the work has always been the work itself 

David McCullough 

Always working

I'm always working, always. I got to keep the ship afloat. 

Leslie Jordan 

Lean over the edge

Sometimes you have to put yourself on the edge. You go to the precipice and lean over it. 

Maria Ewing 

Ronnie Spector

Every song is a little piece of my life 

Schiele

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Egon Schiele.

Ask for what you want

Title of book 

Prep

I believe in pure and good preparation

Kipchogee 

No success

I am not a believer of success

I don't believe in success. 

But I believe in good preparation and planning 

Kipchogee

Documentation is the product - notes

Every one of them has the same wife - notes

Every one of them has the same wife. 

Light skinned, thin…. 

Obvious nice thing

do the obvious nice thing. 

Always, do the obvious nice thing 

Living apart together

Ms. Ordway said that having her own home helps her "remember who I am by myself, remember what I like doing by myself. And that was a lovely gift."

NYT article Dec 11. 2022

Kurkjian

Is this central to the winning formula of iconic creations? The mechanism of a classic is a question Kurkdjian has asked himself, telling me he put it to his friend who works as a contemporary art advisor. "I love her answer," he shares. "When she looks at a piece of art, she's checking two things. The first thing she's checking is, is there somewhere, even hidden, a kind of a classical anchorage or point? And then she checks if there is something very contemporary, almost avant garde-ish. And of course, you have to evoke an emotion. The combination of classicism and avant garde mixed with something that brings a new emotion, is the mark of possible timelessness."

I am you. You are me

If you actually believe my success is yours and your success is mine, there is no score-keeping, ever…. 

- comment on how Michelle Obama is getting it wrong with her thinking, how it affirms: I am you, you are me 

Notes movie idea: Vegas Seven

Book notes: win at work, knife