Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men’s blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone will be a living thing, Continue Reading
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. ― Arthur C. Clarke
To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist… – Clayton Cubitt I have to agree with this. It’s not to say that you shouldn’t want to be good. But it shouldn’t be the ‘why’ of you doing something. I see Continue Reading
Art is why you do something. Craft is how you do something. – Clayton Cubitt
I prefer an interesting vice to a virtue that bores. – Molière
In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt. – Margaret Atwood
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. — Pablo Picasso (vía Holly)
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot. I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet. The function of Continue Reading
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center. – Kurt Vonnegut
“A man has always wanted to lay me down, but never wanted to pick me up.” — Eartha Kitt.
“What do you do when (if) you ever feel like giving up?” – theaudacityofswope There is no such goddamn thing. There is only getting up and doing it all over again, smarter and harder, until something ups and fucking kills you, because that’s the only thing big enough to stop Continue Reading
Be tender with adults, they’re just disillusioned children. — Clayton Cubitt
I photograph subjects that have a mystical power to me. In that sense, every click of the shutter is an act of worship. – Clayton Cubitt
Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is. ? Saul Bellow
It’s a new year. You can be anything you want. You can do anything you want. You have nothing to lose. And everything to gain. Clayton Cubitt
Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It’s hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It’s round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you’ve got about a hundred years here. There’s only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. — Kurt Continue Reading
Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works. – Steve Jobs (via Kelowna)
My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies, loves, hates, strange desires, enemies ghostly and real, the army of memories, with which I do battle — may they never give me peace. – Patricia Highsmith, New Years Eve, 1947
If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders. – via Holly Seems very fitting right now. *shrug*