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9x9 Color Gradients, Luke Crawford. 2015.

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“And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight—isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you’re less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn’t it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you’ve experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you’re seeing them more clearly. And it comes to you that this is what it means to love life, this is all anybody who talks seriously about God is ever talking about. Moments like this.” ― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

“And when the event, the big change in your life, is simply an insight—isn’t that a strange thing? That absolutely nothing changes except that you see things differently and you’re less fearful and less anxious and generally stronger as a result: isn’t it amazing that a completely invisible thing in your head can feel realer than anything you’ve experienced before? You see things more clearly and you know that you’re seeing them more clearly. And it comes to you that this is what it means to love life, this is all anybody who talks seriously about God is ever talking about. Moments like this.”
― Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections

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June 18

“ I will tell you very plainly how I see the relationship between an artist and his audience by telling you a little story that I heard many years ago and made quite an impression on me. You see, during the middle ages a certain woodcarver in China was given the task of crafting a stand for temple bells. It was a very honorable assignment for this Chinese woodcarver and he set about his work. While he carved, he started thinking about all the money he would earn from this bell stand and as it happened the carving turned out quite poorly. But since he was an ambitious Chinese craftsman he started all over again. But this time too as he carved, he started thinking about how he would win everyone’s love with this incredibly beautiful stand and this attempt was a failure as well. So he destroyed that stand and started a third time. But this time it occurred to him that he could gain immortality with this bell stand and his third attempt was a failure too. With that our Chinese woodcarver grew as furious as only a Chinese woodcarver can be and he decided to try a fourth time. This time he had just one thought in his mind, to create a bell stand. This time he succeeded and in doing so gained love, money and immortality.

From an interview for television, Ingmar Bergman. 1966.

via 1000reasonsnottostartmakingart.

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