Wednesday May 22, 2013
Max von Sydow, Actor: “You see, I had an odd upbringing. My father was a scholar, a professor in the town where I was born, and his subject was folklore. He was a master at telling stories—folk tales and adventures. I was very shy as a boy, and heard more fairy tales than the average child because of my father. This and my shyness prompted my imagination, and led to an interest in make believe.”
Source: IMDb
Labels: Storytelling
What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: curious and teachable.
Source: “Things Roger Ebert Said Better Than Anybody Else” by BuzzFeed
Via: Daring Fireball
Labels: Life
Jodi Ettenberg of Legal Nomads: “When I left for what I thought would be a year, I found that the restlessness dissipated. I wasn’t looking to travel around the world indefinitely. That’s never been an aim. However, the restlessness was replaced by an extraordinary curiosity for just about everything I saw. I wanted to build a life around that curiosity. All of the work I do—the consulting, the food writing, the blog—is to facilitate that, and to enable me to see and experience more of the little things in life. In acknowledging this shift away from restlessness and toward learning, I came a long way to accepting more of where I am today. I’m making choices only for me, which is not something everyone has available to them.”
Source: “After 5 years of travel, what’s next?”
Labels: Curiosity
I dream my painting, and then I paint my dream.
Labels: Work
I don’t believe people are looking for the meaning of life as much as they are looking for the experience of being alive.
Labels: Life
Art never responds to the wish to make it democratic; it is not for everybody; it is only for those who are willing to undergo the effort needed to understand it.
Labels: Art
I’m always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it’s very shocking to the system.
Labels: Writing
Author Philip Roth: “Solving the problem of the book you’re writing always remains hard work, and your progress is snail-like. Even if you write a book in two years, sometimes you get a page a day, sometimes you get no pages … every sentence raises a problem, and essentially what you’re doing is connecting one sentence to the next. And you write a sentence and you have to figure out what comes next or what doesn’t come next.”
Labels: Writing
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