“I am very active on the Internet. In 2007, I made one film every day and posted it on my website. That was a 365-day project, really exhausting, but I still put a lot of stuff on - from life, friends, my own life.” MadeStillsFilmStuffMy OwnInternetProjectsActiveWebsiteMy Own LifeExhausting Author:Jonas Mekas
“In my earlier paintings, I wanted the space between the picture plane and the spectator to be active. It was in that space, paradoxically, the painting 'took place.' Then, little by little, and to some extent deliberately, I made it go the other way, opening up an interior space... so that there was a layered, shallow depth.” WayLittlesMadeWantedSpacePaintingDepthActiveOpeningMade ItPlanesShallowInteriorsSpectatorsSpace BetweenOpening UpInterior Space Book:The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009 Source: The Eye's Mind: Collected Writings 1965-2009
“John von Neumann gave me an interesting idea: that you don't have to be responsible for the world that you're in. So I have developed a very powerful sense of social irresponsibility as a result of von Neumann's advice. It's made me a very happy man ever since. But it was von Neumann who put the seed in that grew into my active irresponsibility!” MenWorldMadeIdeasSocialInterestingResultsPowerfulAdviceGrewResponsibleActiveSeedsVery HappyVery PowerfulBeing ResponsibleHappy ManIrresponsibilityInteresting IdeasVon Neumann Author:Richard P. Feynman
“Every social need, such as the need for friendship, must be a party to its own satisfaction: I cannot passively find my friend as a ready-made friend; a ready-made human being he may be, but his friendship for me I must help to create by my own active resolve.” NeedsHumansMayMadeHelpingSocialMy OwnHuman BeingsPartyReadyMy FriendsSatisfactionActiveResolve Book:The Meaning of God in Human Experience Source: The Meaning of God in Human Experience