#su

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#criticism #oscar-wilde #peril #read #surface

Art at its best draws attention not only to the way things are but also to the way things will be, when the earth is filled with the knowledge of G-D as the waters cover the sea. That remains a surprising hope, and perhaps it will be the artists who are best at conveying both the hope and the surprise. ↗

— N.T. Wright

#art #hope #mystics #renewal #resurrection

What constitutes a problem is not the thing, or the environment where we find the thing, but the conjunction of the two; something unexpected in a usual place (our favorite aunt in our favorite poker parlor) or something usual in an unexpected place (our favorite poker in our favorite aunt). I knew that my sampler was absolutely right in Elsie Norris's front room, but absolutely wrong in Mrs. Virtue's sewing class. Mrs. Virtue should either have had the imagination to commend me for my effort in context, or the farsightedness to realize there is a debate going on as to whether something has an absolute as well as a relative value; given that, she should have given me the benefit of the doubt. As it was, she got upset and blamed me for her headache. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#art

I've suffered from all of the hang-ups known, and none is as bad as the telephone. ↗

— Richard Armour

#hang-ups #i #known #none #suffered

Golf is an awkward set of bodily contortions designed to produce a graceful result. ↗

— Tommy Armour

#bodily #designed #golf #graceful #produce

To work and create 'for nothing', to sculpture in clay, to know that one's creation has no future, to see one's work destroyed in a day while being aware that fundamentally this has no more importance than building for centuries- this is the difficult wisdom that absurd thought sanctions. Performing these two tasks simultaneously, negating on one hand and magnifying on the other, is the way open to the absurd creator. He must give the void its colors. ↗

— Albert Camus

#art #art

Tidak ada bisa atau tidak bisa, yang ada hanya mau atau tidak mau (Firman Budi Kurniawan) ↗

— Adenita

#inspirational

Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all this. I think work is the best. (Frida Kahlo, p. 157) ↗

— Martha Zamora

#frida-kahlo #fulfillment #suffering #art

I eat fog for breakfast, and I shit out steamy love scenes from the 80s. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#fog #love #change

Where is our comfort but in the free, uninvolved, finally mysterious beauty and grace of this world that we did not make, that has no price? Where is our sanity but there? Where is our pleasure but in working and resting kindly in the presence of this world? (pg. 215, Economy and Pleasure) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#creation #mystery #pleasure #work #art