#on

So how do we do this trip, knowing it’s all an illusion? How do we do that? We can’t do that. We can only hang on for the ride. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

Allow yourself, if only for a short moment, to go to that place where you cannot possibly think of one thing that you need to do. Go there and see what happens. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

Just tell yourself you’re good. That’ll take care of any idea that you have about not being good enough. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

It’s easy then we’re just doing what’s in front of us – without judging the hell out of ourselves. ↗

— Art Hochberg

#inspirational #art

The male frog, in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the biggest, deepest voice because it suggests a more powerful frog, one with superior genes. Small male frogs - it's been documented - discover that if they position themselves in empty drainpipes, the pipe acts as a voice amplifier, and the small frog appears much larger than it really is." "So?" "So that's what art is, for the artist," said Crake. "An empty drainpipe. An amplifier. A stab at getting laid." "Your analogy falls down when it comes to female artists," said Jimmy. "They're not in it to get laid. They'd gain no biological advantage from amplifying themselves, since potential mates would be deterred rather than attracted by this sort of amplification. Men aren't frogs, they don't want women who are ten times bigger than them." "Female artists are biologically confused," said Crake. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#attraction #biology #evolution #humans #humor

He was learning to live on several planes at once. The art of it was to forget everything except the ground you stood on and the face you spoke from at that moment. ↗

— John le Carré

#art

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#capacity #claim #contribute #even #i

The question of boundaries is a major question of the Jewish people because the Jews are the great experts of crossing boundaries. They have a sense of identity inside themselves that doesn't permit them to cross boundaries with other people. ↗

— A. B. Yehoshua

#boundaries #cross #crossing #experts #great

In America, film is the highest form of art that the public aspires to. People will come to me and say ‘Oh, your book was so good, they ought to make a movie out of it!’ To which I reply ‘Well, why? It’s already a book. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#film #movies #art

I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. ↗

— Boris Yeltsin

#another #calls #defending #even #freedoms