Posts Tagged quotes
Time to Create
Posted by J. Quigley in 20th Century, Culture, feminism, Mary Oliver, Poetry, quotes on March 27, 2013
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
To write to your heart’s content….paint till you drop…play music obsessively…whichever you even have the tiniest spark to do, just start. We can surprise ourselves and find out things about ourselves we never realized we could do, just because we started! – JQ
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves. […]
The world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting-
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
Time
Posted by J. Quigley in Ladakh, Life, quotes, Time, Uncategorized on March 18, 2012
“…we should be careful
Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.”
Philip Larkin from “The Mower”
The Mystery
Posted by J. Quigley in 20th Century, Beat, Culture, Ken Kesey, living, Merry Pranksters, Postmodernism, quotes, writing on March 14, 2012
The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you’ll always be seeking. I’ve never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer. -Ken Kesey
photo via Ensuite Assai
A True Friend
Posted by J. Quigley in Uncategorized on January 31, 2012
Happy New Year…First Chapter
Posted by J. Quigley in 21st Century, New Year's Eve, People, Photography, quotes on December 31, 2011
© Leonard Freed, 1969, Grand Central at New Years Eve, NYC
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” (Edith Lovejoy Pierce)
Happy New Year!
The Invisible Red Thread
Posted by J. Quigley in China, Chinese Proverbs, great thinkers, People, quotes, words, writing on December 21, 2011
“An invisible red thread connects those destined to meet, despite the time, the place, and despite the circumstances. The thread can be tightened or tangle, but will never be broken.”
– an ancient Chinese Proverb
Shoreline
Posted by J. Quigley in living, quotes on November 16, 2011
Because there’s nothing more beautiful than the way the ocean refuses to stop kissing the shoreline, no matter how many times it is sent away.
– Sarah Kay
Flower for Tacoma
Posted by J. Quigley in 1980's, 20th Century, Andy Warhol, art, Screenprits on May 24, 2011
Andy Warhol
Flower For Tacoma Dome
Screenprint on Lenox Museum Board.
C. 1982
38.75″ x 40″
Based on a hybrid flower by Andy Warhol. Created for a proposal for the exterior or the interior of the Tacoma Dome, a sports and convention center in Tacoma, Washington. Steve Antonakos was awarded the commision sponsored by the Civic Arts Commission.
Printer: Rupert Jasen Smith, New York
I tried doing them by hand, but I find it easier to use a screen. This way I don’t have to work on my objects at all. One of my assistants, or anyone else for that matter, can reproduce the design as well as I could. – Andy Warhol
Knowing
Posted by J. Quigley in 20th Century, Books, living, Photography, Physicists, Richard Feynman, Writers on May 23, 2011
Physicist Richard Feynman Uncredited and Undated Photograph
Some people say, ‘How can you live without knowing?’ I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know. Richard Feynman, “The Meaning of It All,” posthumously published, 1999