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I like to take stones from one place and leave them in another place. It's a kind of terrorism.
You make the commitment and nature will respond to that commitment by removing impossible obstacles. Dream the impossible dream and the world will not grind you under, it will lift you up. This is the trick. This is what all these teachers and philosophers who really counted, who really touched the alchemical gold, this is what they understood.
Poetry is how you fight it.
The potter himself was as sharp as a sword from Sagami. Yet he enveloped the whole thing in beauty. This tea bowl looks very simple, but there's a certain haughtiness about it, something regal and arrogant, as though he didn't regard other people as being quite human.
Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real.
Do something unique that only you and no one else in the world can do. Don’t call it art.
To begin with the obsession of originality is an unrefined and rudimentary process.
True beauty is as rare as is, among humans, the person who is capable of defying himself, that is to say choosing a certain self and imposing it on her/himself. Maximum freedom is born of the ultimate severity.
Schlaf hat keine Richtung.
The simulacrum is never what hides the truth – it is truth that hides the fact that there is none. The simulacrum is true.
The only path to happiness is responsibility. Not getting what you want but doing what you need to do.
Es ist eine solche Wohltat, mit Unbekanntem konfrontiert zu werden, mit einem Hinweis, einer Information, die eine andere Antwort vorsieht als das ewige: ja, ich weiß.
She hated all making, all colours and elaborate adornment, wearing only black and silver and living in bare chambers, and the gardens of the house in Osgiliath were filled with tormented sculptures beneath cypresses and yews.
There’s a lot of people that could be designers, a lot of people have great ideas, but it’s the execution. It’s easy to have inspiration and have a vision and an aesthetic, but if you don’t have the execution and you don’t get it out there properly and on time, it doesn’t matter. It’ll sink.
She had rewoven the remaining filaments of her senses into a great web in which she caught reality.
I modify facts in such a way that they resemble truth more than reality.
Reaching for perfection knowing that you cannot entirely fulfill it: this is the adventurous and exciting starting point. If you would really believe [in your own] rules, i think it would be naïve. If you really would believe that there is something like perfection, it would be a terrible misunderstanding.
Ich betrachte die Methode mit viel mehr Zuneigung als die Ergebnisse, und das Endergebnis rechtfertigt nicht die Mittel, denn es gibt kein Ende.
Eine äußerst ungesunde Verbindung von Kunst und Leben.
The Taoist and Zen conception of perfection, however, was different. The dynamic nature of their philosophy laid more stress upon the process through which perfection was sought than upon perfection itself. True beauty could be discovered only by one who mentally completed the incomplete.
Responsibility is resistance.
We no longer see the internet as a means to communicate, but as a way to change the nature of reality itself.
Grab for insights. Regardless of points others are trying to make, when you recognize an insight that has meaning for you, make it your own. Its importance is not how central it is, but how clear and interesting and memorable it is to you.
To accept space as one accepts time.
Work in public. Reveal nothing.
I like the suspense of energy and balance, which to me is the fragility of living a moment of bliss.
I think we have enough coziness in our lives. Isn’t it nice every once in a while, to have a little bit of discipline and to have something that makes you sit up kind of straight? […] Comfort isn’t everything.
I think this whole idea of creating a universe, and then living in the middle of it always attracted me.
Technology and art are synonyms.
A lot of the power of the idea lies in the form it’s expressed in.
The plans for a building have to be made well in advance, with the construction methodically and rationally executed. If what I want to present is calm and logical elegance, wouldn’t I want its creation to follow suit?
All palaces are temporary palaces.
(Poetic, ecstatic truth) is mysterious and elusive, and can be reached only through fabrication and imagination and stylization.
There is always, in an aesthetic judgement, a plea for universality. You imply that everybody should like this. You cannot say this is beautiful, and I don't care what you think.
Surface is an illusion, but so is depth.
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four.
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
I'm not into fun, I'm into concentration.
To be a person you have to find a sweet spot in which you both invent yourself and are real.
For if I can not endure today, when and where will I?
As I see it, and as I live, I don’t have any weaknesses. I’ve set things up so that objectively I won’t have any, but can simply live my life subjectively, the best way I can conceive of.
Work in public. Reveal nothing.
Self-discipline is empathy with your future self.
Control and surrender have to be kept in balance. That’s what surfers do—take control of the situation, then be carried, then take control.
To begin with the obsession of originality is an unrefined and rudimentary process.
I give names to things based not on what they are, but what they ought to be.
Proportion is visible reasonableness.
There's something kind of poignant and lovely and melancholy about just accepting the glory of the effort as glory enough on its own.
The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world is made of words. And if you know the words that the world is made of, you can make of it whatever you wish.
“everything I touch turns into me.”
Keep the fools wondering.
If you can't leave your mark, give up.
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