Charles Palahniuk on Creating the World You Demand
“The first step—especially for young people with energy and drive and talent, but not money—the first step to controlling your world is to control your culture. To model and demonstrate the kind of world you demand to live in. To write the books. Make the music. Shoot the films. Paint the art.” —Charles Palahniuk ‘Fight […]
Marshall McLuhan on Art
I think of art, at its most significant, as a DEW line, a Distant Early Warning system that can always be relied on to tell the old culture what is beginning to happen to it. Marshall McLuhan
Charles Mingus on Creativity
“Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that’s creativity.” Charles Mingus
Charles Bukowski On Style
Style is the answer to everything.A fresh way to approach a dull or dangerous thingTo do a dull thing with style is preferable to doing a dangerous thing without itTo do a dangerous thing with style is what I call art Bullfighting can be an artBoxing can be an artLoving can be an artOpening a […]
Franz Kafka On Wonder And Appreciation
“Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.” —Franz Kafka
Kurt Vonnegut On Identity In Flux
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.” —Kurt Vonnegut