“There is a feeling of disbelief that comes over you, that takes over, and you kind of go through the motions. You do what you're supposed to do, but in fact you're not there at all.” KindFactsFeelingsEmptinessOver YouDetachmentDisbeliefNumbness Author:Frederick Barthelme
“Starting with approaching the spot where the painting is to be done, meanwhile realising the emptiness of the mind, up to the method of 'the flying white', of the rule of the singular stroke of the brush.. ..there is a proper tradition in which the artist is fully aware of the fact that only the pure and empty spontaneity enables him to embrace without hesitating all apparitions and to truly penetrate into the roots of things.” MindDoneFactsArtistWhitePaintingPureTraditionRootsEmptyMethodEmbraceStartingFlyingSpotsEmptinessRealisingStrokesBrushesPenetrateSpontaneityApparitions Author:Antoni Tapies
“That has been the great achievement of our age: to so thoroughly flood the planet with megabits that every image and fact has become a digitized disembodied nothingness. With magnificent determination, our species has advanced from Stone Age to Industrial Revolution to Digital Emptiness. We've become weightless, in the bad sense of the word.” Has BeensFactsAgePlanetsRevolutionAchievementDeterminationStonesSpeciesEmptinessDigitalFloodMagnificentNothingnessIndustrial RevolutionGreat AchievementStone Age Author:Alan Lightman
“My chronic feelings of emptiness and boredom came from the fact that I was living a life based on my incapacities, which were numerous.” FactsFeelingsBoredomEmptinessIncapacity Book:Girl, Interrupted Source: Girl, Interrupted