Andrew Schroeder

I have come especially to talk to those among you who recognize these failures. I want particularly to talk to those who recognize all of their failures and feel inadequate and defeated, to those who feel insufficient – short of what is expected or needed. I would like somehow to explain that these feelings are the natural state of mind of the artist, that a sense of disappointment and defeat is the essential state of mind for creative work.

 In order to do this I would like to consider further those moments in which we feel joy in living. To some these moments are very clear and to others of a vagueness that can only be described as below the level of consciousness. Whether conscious or unconscious they do their work and they are the incentive to life. A stockpile of these moments gives us an awareness of perfection in our minds and this awareness of perfection in our minds makes all the difference in what we do. 

Agnes Martin
Lecture, 1973

This lecture was originally given at the ICA on February 14, 1973 on the occasion of the exhibition, “Agnes Martin”

TCHIKITAHMAN: “Just got done with a fitting for a job…now I’m off to the la gun club for some gun powder relaxation!” 4/29/11 via HTC Peep

I couldn’t have said it better. And I, for one, was absolutely crushed that he wasn’t at the concert at First Ave in Minneapolis…

“Autrefois, maison privée
Maintenant, poste de police.
Temps de Sihanouk, cinema
Aujord’hui, bureau de la Partie.”

“Before (once upon a time), private house.
Now, Police station.
In Sihanouk’s time, movie theater.
Today, headquarters of the Party.”

“Spoken quietly over my shoulder by my cyclo driver.”
Phnom Penh, 1988

Bill Burke

Maybe every other American movie shouldn’t be based on a comic book. Other countries will think Americans live in an infantile fantasy land where reality is whatever we say it is and every problem can be solved with violence.

Bill Maher

via Bill Maher Quotes.

“What is the Absolute? Something that appears to us in fleeting experiences–say, through the gentle smile of a beautiful woman, or even through the warm caring smile of a person who may otherwise seem ugly and rude. In such miraculous but extremely fragile moments, another dimension transpires through our reality. As such, the Absolute is easily corroded;it slips all too easily through our fingers and must be handled as carefully as a butterfly”"
— Slavoj Žižek (The Fragile Absolute: Or, Why is the Christian Legacy Worth Fighting For?)