Reading

Rick Rubin
THE CREATIVE ACT
A Way of Being

DAVID LYNCH

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Einstein must have had a very hard time: Fucking morons everywhere.

DAVID LYNCH

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I had this idea that you drink coffee, and you smoke cigarettes, and you paint. And that’s it.

Ashley Bryan
1923-2022

 

GLORIA SWANSON

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All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

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The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

More or less:

I've done better but this is a good start.

DONALD WINNICOTT from On Communicating and Not Communicating

In the artist of all kinds I think one can detect an inherent dilemma, which belongs to the co-existence of two trends, the urgent need to communicate and the still more urgent need not to be found.

SAMUEL R. DELANY

The only important elements in any society are the artistic and the criminal, because they alone, by questioning the society’s values, can force it to change.

MAURICE SENDAK

Art has always been my salvation. And my gods are Herman Melville, Emily Dickinson, Mozart. I believe in them with all my heart. And when Mozart is playing in my room, I am in conjunction with something I can’t explain — I don’t need to. I know that if there’s a purpose for life, it was for me to hear Mozart.