#tin

Dr Sass…maintained that in paradise, until the time of the fall, the whole world was flat, the back-curtain of the Lord, and that it was the devil who invented a third dimension. Thus are the words ‘straight’, ‘square’, and ‘flat’ the words of noblemen, but the apple was an orb, and the sin of our first parents, the attempt at getting around God. I myself much prefer the art of painting to sculpture ↗

— Karen Blixen

#god #painting #religion #sculpture #art

The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#creativity #literature #writing #art

They paid people to write books!!! Until that moment I had a vague idea that books were produced in factories, like tires, or else they grew on trees, like money. ↗

— Gary Reilly

#writing #money

The painting has a life of its own ↗

— Jackson Pollock

#life #painting #art

I call it guerilla TV. ↗

— Marsha Bemko Producer of Antiques Roadshow

#collecting #killer-stuff-and-tons-of-money #reality-television #money

A worthy quote makes you think A good quote states more than the obvious An excellent quote removes doubt A great quote teaches you something A genius quote changes your mind. ↗

— T. Crossley

#writing #change

I write for the same reason I breathe ... because if I didn't, I would die. ↗

— Isaac Asimov

#writing #motivational

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. ↗

— James Oppenheim

#determination #happiness #motivation #motivational

Where did we ever get the crazy idea that in order to make children do better, first we have to make them feel worse? Think of the last time you felt humiliated or treated unfairly. Did you feel like cooperating or doing better? ↗

— Jane Nelson

#discipline #motivation #parenting #punishment #motivational

It is impossible to discourage the real writers - they don't give a damn what you say, they're going to write. ↗

— Sinclair Lewis

#on-writing #motivational