“The process of photographing is a pleasure: eyes open, receptive, sensing, and at some point, connecting. It’s thrilling to be outside your mind, your eyes far ahead of your thoughts.” – Henry Wessel, 1942-2018, photographer
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” — Art of Quotation
“Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” – Floyd Dell, novelist, editor, playwright, poet
via “Idleness is not doing nothing. Idleness is being free to do anything.” — Art of Quotation
The simple joys of hand-writing — HeideBlog
I take a lot of crap about my note-taking. Constant scribbling is so central to my persona, in fact, that one colleague recently expressed concern during a meeting when I wasn’t taking notes. “I forgot my pen,” I shrugged. Here’s the thing: I have a terrible memory — so if I don’t write it down […]
In Memory: “If you are a writer, you have to be someone who can be on your own. You can sit in a room for eight hours, and…” — Art of Quotation
“If you are a writer, you have to be someone who can be on your own. You can sit in a room for eight hours, and at the end of it you will have done something.”
– Stephen Jeffreys, 1950-2018, British, playwright
Naked Cities Note [MN]: The Guardian’s Obituary for Stephen Jeffreys can be found at: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/sep/18/stephen-jeffreys-obituary
Aldous Huxley – On Creativity, Proficiency and Results
“The harder we try with the conscious will to do something, the less we shall succeed. Proficiency and results come only to those who have learned the paradoxical art of doing and not doing, or combining relaxation with activity.”
– Aldous Huxley, as quoted by Mark Manson in: markmanson.net/why-the-best-things-in-life-are-all-backwards
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not…” — Art of Quotation
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them?” – Pablo Picasso, Spanish, painter, sculptor, printmaker, draftsman
via “Everyone wants to understand art. Why not…” — Art of Quotation
The Notebook – by Marcus D. Niski
Decay
Ruins
Detritus
The Mundane
The Moment
Ennui
Boredom
The Obvious
The Un-Noticed
The Notebook
[MN] 24 August 2018
William S. Burroughs – On The Third Mind
No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible force which may be likened to a third mind…
– William S. Burroughs on The Third Mind
Francis Bacon
Nearly all reality is pain.
– From an Interview with Melwyn Bragg for The South Bank Show.
[Quotation taken from my Writer’s Notebooks 2015]
William S. Burroughs – On Writing
No trouble, no story, no book, no film, no painting …
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