Another in our occasional series of quotations encountered during he week which have struck me: because of their zen-ness, their humour, or their verisimilitude.
Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting and … ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to “walk about” into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
[Wassily Kandinsky, 1910]The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on.
[Chuck Palahniuk]It doesn’t matter what you’ve got in your pants if there’s nothing in your brain to connect it to.
Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
… the result of some wobbly high-heel work at a drink addled giggle-fest.
[Alison Cross]