posts tagged with: inspiration

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Do whatever you do intensely.

The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.

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- Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

“The best camera is the one you have with you.”

- Unknown, often attributed to Ansel Adams (via claytoncubitt)

“Everyone makes bad work, usually forever.”

- Awful and bizarre art by people you know - The Something Awful Forums (via 3liza)

“To award prizes is to attempt to control the course of another man’s work. It is a bid to have him do what you will approve. It affects not only the one who wins the award, but all those who in any measure strive for it. It is an effort to stop evolution, to hold things back to the plane of your judgment. It is a check on a great adventure of human life. It is negative to the idea that youth should go forward. It is for the coming generation to judge you, not for you to judge it. So it must happen, whether you will it or not.”

- Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

“His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living, and the dead.”

- James Joyce (via claytoncubitt)

“Everything passes away - suffering, pain, blood, hunger, pestilence. The sword will pass away too, but the stars will still remain when the shadows of our presence and our deeds have vanished from the earth. There is no man who does not know that. Why, then, will we not turn our eyes toward the stars? Why?”

- ~Mikhail Bulgakov, The White Guard (via theremina)

The individual says “My crowd doesn’t run that way.” I say, don’t run with crowds. — Robert Henri, The Art Spirit

This strongly appeals to me. I don’t know why, exactly. It must know me better than I do.

Via Ladies of the PQ

“Cowardice asks the question, ‘Is it safe?’ Expedience asks the question, ‘Is it politic?’ Vanity asks the question, ‘Is it popular?’ But conscience asks the question, ‘Is it right?’”

- Martin Luther King (via claytoncubitt)

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming– “Wow! What a Ride!””

- Hunter S. Thompson (via louobedlam)