November 2011
13 posts
“The thing of composition is so abstract. It’s so powerful where you place things and the relationships. But you don’t work with any kind of intellectual thing. You just act and react. It’s all intuition. It must obey rules, but these rules are not in any book. The basic rules of composition are a joke.”
—David Lynch
“Perls proposed that in all relationships people could be either toxic or nourishing towards one another. It is not necessarily true that the same person will be toxic or nourishing in every relationship, but the combination of any two people in a relationship produces toxic or nourishing consequences. And the important thing that I can tell you is that there is a test to determine whether someone is toxic or nourishing in your relationship with them. Here is the test: You have spent some time with this person, either you have a drink or go for dinner or you go to a ball game. It doesn’t matter very much but at the end of that time you observe whether you are more energised or less energised. Whether you are tired or whether you are exhilarated. If you are more tired then you have been poisoned. If you have more energy you have been nourished. The test is almost infallible and I suggest that you use it for the rest of your life.”
—Milton Glaser, in an AIGA talk
“Do not waste yourself in rejection; do not bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via getyourrunningshoeson)
“My advice: leave the young people alone and they’ll find out that they prefer lovemaking to warmongering and are more anxious to get along with one another than the older generations who stir the pots of war.”
—Ron Paul (via kendraware)
“Art has always been what the artist decided to make it.”
—Samuel J. Wagstaff
