#mo

Cuando te ataquen con magia, corre, reza o arroja piedras; muchos magos no son más que un fraude, y puedes salir airoso aun cuando tu corazón tiemble. O bien puedes permanecer tranquilo y murmurar cualquier cosa mientras mueves fluidamente tus manos. Algunos practicantes del arte son tan cobardes que pueden salir huyendo ante esto. Y, en cuanto a los otros, al menos, cuando los hombres hablen de tu muerte días más tarde, dirán: "Nunca supe que fuese un mago; lo mantuvo en secreto todos estos años. Debe de haber sido un tipo inteligente". Desde luego, algunos no estarán de acuerdo con esto. ↗

— Ed Greenwood

#magia #art

The entire partying lifestyle was superficial in my experience, and most of my friendships were as deep as a shot glass and as short-lived as a pack of cigarettes. ↗

— Kate Madison

#friendship #lifestyle #memoir #partying #shot-glass

The great obstacle to the 'struggle toward clear vision of the universal' is the human trait that Mondrian variously calls 'individuality,' 'personality'... [p.73] ↗

— Roger Lipsey

#art

I'm one of those passengers who arrives at the airport five or six hours early so I can throw back a few drinks and muster up the courage to board the plane. Apparently I'm not alone because I've never been in an empty airport bar. I don't care what time you get there. Even at 8:00 a.m. you have to fight your way to the bar. At that hour, everyone drinks Bloody Marys so no one can tell it's booze- at least until they fall off their chair. ↗

— Bob Newhart

#courage

The homage paid to the fragment and the dismantling of the large narratives had had their spatial counterpart in the lack of integrated and conceptual vision of urban construction, and perhaps also of social construction. ↗

— Sverker Sörlin

#modernism #sweden #art

I Came away from the U.S. Memory Championship eager to find out how Ed and Lukas did it. Were these just extraordinary individuals, pridigies from the long tail of humanity's bell curve, or was there something we could all learn from their talents? ↗

— Joshua Foer

#humanity #memory #talent #art

-[...] comme vous me paraissez amateur; car lorsque je suis entré vous regardiez mes tableaux, je vous demande la permission de vous faire voir ma galerie : tous tableaux anciens, tous tableaux de maîtres garantis comme tels ; je n'aime pas les modernes. -Vous avez raison, monsieur, car ils ont en général un grand défaut : c'est celui de n'avoir pas encore eu le temps de devenir des anciens. ↗

— Alexandre Dumas

#art #cowardice #humor #repartee #art

Legacy is not what's left tomorrow when you're gone. It's what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you're here that then happens to live on. ↗

— Rasheed Ogunlaru

#courage #destiny #fate-happiness #following-your-life-s-path #inspiring-quotes

A pair of stockings is no less suitable o make a painting of than wood,nails,turpentine,oil,and fabric. ↗

— Robert Rauschenberg

#art

Art is a captured emotion. When I say this I mean all artists, whether you are a photographer, a writer, or sculptor, you are trying to capture the way someone or something made you feel. As a story teller I am trying to captivate the audience and allow them to feel just a small portion of the emotion I am desperately trying to preserve. ↗

— Tommy Tran

#author #captivating #capturing #emotion #storytelling