"Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much."
- ― Lucy R. Lippard, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place
"Travel is the only context in which some people ever look around. If we spent half the energy looking at our own neighborhoods, we’d probably learn twice as much."
- ― Lucy R. Lippard, On the Beaten Track: Tourism, Art, and Place
"Some people dedicate their life to art. I choose to dedicate my art to life."
- (via manbartlett)
"It may be proposed that the context, or surrounding, of art is more potent, more meaningful, more demanding of an artist’s attention, than the art itself. Put differently, it’s not what the artists touches that counts most. It’s what he doesn’t touch."
- Allan Kaprow: Assemblage, Environments & Happenings, 1966
Perfume Genius - Never Did
Blouse - Into Black
"Violent delights have violent ends"
- Bill Shakespeare
Thelonious Monk - Memories of You (1964)
In this tumblr’s humblr opinion, Monk will forever be the world’s greatest interpreter of jazz standards.
A little Tuesday music to shimmy to - Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora - When The Rain Begins to Fall
"Lord I don’t love you. I think you’re a bore. You’re demanding. Your’e authoritarian. You’re domineering. And probably I ought to love you, but I’m sorry, I don’t."
- Alan Watts - in reference to the notion of forcing love to those you supposedly “have to” love
Don’t forget to breathe
What I’ll wear when I marry sasquatch
