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EPHEMERAL & EVERGREEN

Fleeting short posts are ephemeral. Thoughtful long posts are evergreen.

  • When an art form is created, the question is: How do you come to it? Not, how does it come to you?…Beethoven’s music is not gonna come to you…The art of Picasso won’t come to you…you have to go to it. And when you go to it, you get the benefits of it.

    Wynton Marsalis
  • A great illustration.

    politico:

    ilovecharts:

    The Hero’s Journey
    A chart outlining Joseph Campbell’s idea of the monomyth.

    Whoa. This appeals to the English nerd in us so hard. 

  • Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication

    Leonardo Da Vinci
  • Tell less, show more.

    Limhi
  • Art is most effective when concealed.

    Ovid
  • It is only by tracing things to their origin that we can gain rightful ideas of them, and it is by gaining such ideas that we discover the boundary that divides right from wrong, and teaches every man to know his own.

    Thomas Paine, Agrarian Justice
  • The image and the words reflect the reality of the Great Recession.

    This picture of Michigan Central Station was taken by Carey Primeau.

  • Work cures everything.

    Henri Matisse
  • The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

    George Orwell