“The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths” at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Posted January 23, 2012 at 12:59pm in photography instagram quotes soft focus philadelphia
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‘And how will you do this?’ she wants to know. ‘A political party? A march? A revolution? A coup?’
‘A magazine.’
— Dave Eggers, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Integrity: I like it in women, and never hope to see it in men.
—
Jesse Kornbluth (via cityunlisted)
Kornbluth speaking about his Bourdain crush, which I’m sure most men in America can identify with.
For touring, my Kindle is just about the greatest thing I own. I have a few hundred books on it and have recently been going back and rereading Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Philosophy. When I was in college I was a philosophy major and now I feel like forgotten almost everything I’ve learned. So I’m putting myself through a Bertrand Russell refresher course. On tour, however, I also tend to read a lot of what you’d probably call plot-driven airport fiction—I go through that like water.
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Moby lays out his media diet. Read the rest at The Atlantic Wire. (via theatlantic)
“Plot-driven airport fiction.” That is all.
There is room on this earth for many queens. I have an authentic, God-given talent, drive, and longevity that will always separate me from everyone else. I’ve been fortunate to accomplish things that the younger generation of queens dream of accomplishing. I have no desire for anyone else’s throne. I am very comfortable in the throne I’ve been building for the past 15 years.
Don’t wear those on the train.
— A genuine New York compliment on a newly purchased pair of diamond earrings from my Upper East Side raised mother who’s worked in the South Bronx for over 25 years.
Photography is sex whereas painting is love. Photography is fact whereas painting is feeling. Photography is dead whereas painting is alive. Long Live painting. Long live fashion illustration!
— Artist Tanya Ling apparently has it out for photography.
If I told you the film I have just finished right now,” he says, “is about single-issue campaigns that metastasize, about the demonization of immigrants, about smear campaigns against politicians, about unfunded mandates, about a whole group of people who feel like they’ve lost control of their country and they want to take it back, you’d say, ‘Man, you’re making a film about today.’
I know what the worst invention ever is. The internet. I think it’s ruining everyone, and it just makes everybody way too accessible – it just takes away the glamor and mystery from our business.
— Vanessa Hudgens in a recent interview with PEOPLE magazine.
On the verge of nervous exhaustion, but only for the last seven years.
— Tina Fey answers “What is your current state of mind?” in Vanity Fair’s Proust Questionnaire.
My goal is to always come from a place of love …but sometimes you just have to break it down for a motherfucker.
— RuPaul
Sorry my life is so much more bitchin than yours. I planned it that way. You coulda planned better.
—
Charlie Sheen
(This TMZ livestream is the best thing that’s ever happened to Monday. http://www.tmz.com/)
