Thankful: for

by Daniel Edlen, this tumblog is a collection of creativity and culture that has gone into making me what I am today. So I'm thankful for it.
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When you do something, you should burn yourself completely, like a good bonfire, leaving no trace of yourself. Shunryu Suzuki (via quotesandthat)

I’ve felt since grade school that my job was to be invisible.

Mark Van Doren

Mark Van Doren

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bananabred:

Things You Should Have Learned in Art School


Yep.

bananabred:

Things You Should Have Learned in Art School

Yep.

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I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process. Buckminster Fuller, “I Seem To Be a Verb,” 1970  (via elige)

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If it is right, it happens—The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away. John Steinbeck, on falling in love, a response to his eldest son’s 1958 letter, from John Steinbeck: A Life in Letters (Viking Adult, 1975)

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You, yourself, are the eternal energy which appears as this universe. You didn’t come into this world; you came out of it. Like a wave from the ocean. Alan Watts (via elige)

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livelymorgue:

Sept. 6, 1957: Frank Lloyd Wright with an assistant assesses his latest creation, a museum to house Solomon R. Guggenheim’s growing modern art collection.”Mr. Guggenheim came to me twelve years ago and said he wanted a museum specifically for the advanced type of paintings he collected,” Mr. Wright said. He went on, in an absorbing piece for The Times magazine: “ ‘This is the only organic building in New York,’ says Wright. ‘Each part is the consequence of the other, as things are in nature.’ ” Photo: Sam Falk/The New York Times