#muse

I should have been a much better artist if I could have studied more and amused myself less. ↗

— Ida Rentoul Outhwaite

#artist #been #better #could #i

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness... and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him. ↗

— Blaise Pascal

#amuse #any #ball #billiards #cause

I was staying with my sister and messing around with the guitar every day for my own amusement. Then she took me around and introduced me to Muddy Waters, Jimmy Rogers, Little Walter, and the first time I saw that onstage, it inspired me to play. I thought that was the world. ↗

— Otis Rush

#around #day #every #every day #first

Be simple in words, manners, and gestures. Amuse as well as instruct. If you can make a man laugh, you can make him think and make him like and believe you. ↗

— Alfred E. Smith

#believe #gestures #him #instruct #laugh

What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion! ↗

— Sydney Smith

#england #pity #religion #vice

Visiting a museum is a matter of going from void to void. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#matter #museum #visiting #void

History is representational, while time is abstract; both of these artifices may be found in museums, where they span everybody's own vacancy. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#artifices #both #everybody #found #history

Museums are tombs, and it looks like everything is turning into a museum. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#into #like #looks #museum #museums

The museum spreads its surfaces everywhere, and becomes an untitled collection of generalizations that mobilize the eye. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#collection #everywhere #eye #generalizations #mobilize

The museums and parks are graveyards above the ground- congealed memories of the past that act as a pretext for reality. ↗

— Robert Smithson

#act #graveyards #memories #museums #parks