This sentence resonated with me today and I think that anyone working on a new approach to their work or a new creative endeavor will feel the same way!
“Whatever the medium, there is the difficulty, challenge, fascination and often productive clumsiness of learning a new method: the wonderful puzzles and problems of translating with new materials.”
HELEN FRANKENTHALER
Helen Frankenthaler in her studio photographed by Gordon Parks
A nation, he heard himself say, consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.
WILLIAM GIBSON
(excerpt from SPOOK COUNTRY)
“Totalitarianism, at its essence, is an attempt at transforming reality into fiction.”
HANNAH ARENDT
“Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told me in my childhood than any truth that is taught in life.”
FRIEDRICH SCHILLER
“Science is always wrong. It never solves a problem without creating ten more.”
“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.”
There’s nothing quite as cheerful as the opening theme to The Mary Tyler Moore Show:
Watching this and listening to the music makes me so nostalgic for a time when we were more innocent. However that refrain, “you’re gonna make it after all,” reassures us, after all these years, that there are still brighter days ahead.
Flavia Masson 