Archive for the ‘Quote’ Tag
Cactus Flower — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“I feel that a real living form is the natural result
of the individual’s effort to create the living thing
out of the adventure of his spirit into the unknown —
it has where experienced something — felt something —
it has not understood — and from that experience
comes the desire to make the unknown — known —
Making the unknown — known — in terms of one’s medium
is all-absorbing — if you stop to think of the form — as form
you are lost — The artist’s form must be inevitable —
You mustn’t think you won’t succeed –“
— Georgia O’Keeffe in a letter to Sherwood Anderson, 1923
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Tom Turner, a Rainy Day on the Seattle Waterfront (June, 2000) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
(These quotes were among Tom’s handwritten notes.)
“A person becomes a writer because they’re deficient. They have problems. They’re crazy. They have unhappy families. They’re eccentric. And not because they’ve read a lot of books necessarily, but on the contrary — maybe they haven’t read enough books. There’s a strong irrationality about the writing life. Often a writer writes just to maintain their sanity. The way an addict needs to perform a certain ritual of mainlining, a writer kind of has to do it in order to keep his or her head on straight.”
— Paul Theroux
“The whole content of my being shrieks in contradiction against itself.”
— Kierkegaard
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A Texas Bar, Byran, Texas, 2001 — Photo-Artistry by kenne
“There was a young man who said though,
it seems that I know that I know,
but what I would like to see is the I that knows me
when I know that I know that I know.”
— Alan Watts
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Cholla Cactus — Hanging Fruit — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Nature is disordered, powerful, and chaotic, and through fear of the chaos, we impose
a system on it. We abhor complexity and seek to simplify things whenever we can by
whatever means we have at hand. We need to have an overall explanation of what the
universe is and how it functions. In order to achieve this overall view, we develop
explanatory theories, that will give structure to natural phenomena: we classify nature
into a coherent system, which appears to do what we say it does.
— from The Day The Universe Changed by James Burke
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Nature Stilllife Painting (Desert Cotton Blossom) — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Everything on the face of the earth
is constantly being transformed
because the Earth is alive and has a Soul.
— Paulo Coelho
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A Grove of Saguaros in Sabino Canyon — Photo-Artistry by kenne
And now we welcome the new year,
full of things that have never been.
— Ranier Maria Rilke
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Looking South from Tanuri Ridge — Image by kenne
“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us
and call that handful of sand the world.”
— Robert M. Pirsig
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