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Yet Socrates told us to beware the barrenness of a busy life. If we’re busy all the time, life lacks essential rhythm. We miss out on the contrasts between doing and not doing. This oscillation is natural and healthy.
“over the imaginary solitude of others, what others do when they are alone, how they deal with the vastness and ephemerality of the day, which I think is for me increasingly the meaning of and crisis of art.”
― Drifts
― Drifts
“Conceptual artists believed it was the message that mattered, not the medium, as if thought could be immaterial.”
― Contemporary Painting
― Contemporary Painting
“in literature, what we call progress doesn’t exist, just as, for example, we don’t get better at dreaming over time:”
― Mac's Problem
― Mac's Problem
“First find out what you are capable of, then decide who you are.”
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“Bad art teaches you as much as good art, maybe more.”
― How to Be an Artist
― How to Be an Artist
The Virginia Woolf Reading Group
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This group is for anyone who knows (or wants to know) about Virginia Woolf. If you have read all her works or none, loved her books or hated them, t ...more
Contemporary Art Discourse
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Dedicated to the reading and discovering of outstanding literature on contemporary art.
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A place for people who love to read about and/or are compelled to write out the natural world. Share and discuss books that move you, anger you, chang ...more
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