“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” — Simone Weil
(Source: The New York Times)
Dear California, I will never leave you.
“Technology appeals to us most where we are most vulnerable” — Sherry Turkle Are We Plugged-In, Connected, But Alone? : NPR
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“History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.” — Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending
Still life with pear
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“But when I say the blunt truth is that men run the world, people say, ‘Really?’ That, to me, is the problem.” — Sheryl Sandberg “Lean In” Exclusive Interview | TIME.com
“There’s a lot of consuming and devouring and eating in Maurice’s books. And I think that when people play with kids, there’s a lot of fake ferocity and threats of, you know, devouring, because love is so enormous, the only thing you can think of doing is swallowing the person that you love entirely.” — Interview: Tony Kushner, Friend Of ‘My Brother’s Book’ Author Maurice Sendak : NPR
Oranges from Tennessee
“An increasingly mechanistic, fragmented, decontextualised world, marked by unwarranted optimism mixed with paranoia and a feeling of emptiness, has come about, reflecting, I believe, the unopposed action of a dysfunctional left [brain] hemisphere.” — Iain McGilchrist
Tiny Ships
11x8 inches
Self Portrait
“In the early 1950s, the Betty Crocker Company introduced a cake mix so that people could readily make excellent tasting cakes at home. No muss, no fuss: just add water, mix, and bake. The product failed. “The cake mix was a little too simple. The consumer felt no sense of accomplishment, no involvement with the product. It made her feel useless.” Betty Crocker solved the problem by requiring the cook to add an egg to the mix, thereby putting pride back into the activity. Adding the egg gave the act of baking a sense of accomplishment, whereas just mixing water into the cake mix seemed too little, too artificial.” —
Donald A. Norman, Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things
We are such sensitive creatures.
One of my favorite young Berlin painters.
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