“Anger at happenstance for its absurd timing. Anger at myself for being so angry. I hate being angry and every time I got this angry it made me more angry at the fact that I was so angry. I realized though that I couldn't really be mad at any of those things.” MadeFactsHateI HateAngryMadI RealizedAbsurdTimingHappenstance Author:David Bowick
“The idea of an isolated American painting , so popular in this country during the thirties, seems absurd to me, just as the idea of a purely American mathematics or physics would seem absurd... And in another sense, the problem doesn't exist at all; or, if it did, would solve itself: An American is an American and his painting would naturally be qualified by the fact, whether he wills or not. But the basic problems of contemporary painting are independent of any one country.” IfsIdeasCountryFactsProblemSeemsPaintingMathematicsIndependentSolvePhysicsContemporaryAbsurdIsolatedQualified Book:Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956 Source: Jackson Pollock, 1912-1956
“The real resistance now is to an art which forces its audience to recognize and accept imaginatively, in their nerve ends, not the facts of life but the facts of death and violence: absurd, random, gratuitous, unjustified, and inescapably part of the society we have created.” ArtRealEndsFactsForceAcceptingAudienceViolenceResistanceAbsurdNervesFacts Of LifeUnjustified Book:The Savage God: A Study of Suicide Source: The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
“Aside from a couple of signature flourishes, there's nothing to mark Paycheck as the product of acclaimed action director John Woo. In fact, there's little about this movie that makes it worth anyone's time and money. With a script that waffles between being hilariously absurd and insultingly stupid, and action scenes that won't cause anyone's pulse to skip a beat, Paycheck is less appealing than a lump of coal in a Christmas stocking.” LittlesFactsActionCausesStupidProductsCoupleSceneDirectorsBeatsMarkScriptsAbsurdCoalPulseSignaturesSkipLumpsPaychecksTime And MoneyStockingsWaffles Author:James Berardinelli
“There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it.” MenFactsSeemsPayMoralForeverAtheismConsciousBoundsObviousPositive AtheismAbsurdPrey Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays