“Natural writers will often try to force themselves into a form - novel, story, screenplay, or poem - that is not necessarily the appropriate form for the way they see the world... if, in fact, they are writing from the artist's impulse, which is a deep, inchoate vision of some sort of order behind the apparent chaos of life on planet earth, they'll be driven then to express that vision in the creation of the object - the art object.” IfsWorldWayWritingTryingArtFactsStoriesEarthFormArtistOrderForceNaturalBehindsVisionNovelCreationObjectsPlanetsChaosDrivenImpulseAppropriateScreenplaysPlanet Earth Author:Robert Olen Butler
“Object in/ and space - the first impulse may be to give the object - a position - to place the object. (The object had a position to begin with.) Next - to change the position of the object. - Rauschenberg's early sculptures - A board with some rocks on it. The rocks can be anywhere on the board. - Cage's Japanese rock garden - The rocks can be anywhere (within the garden).” GivingFirstsMayNextSpaceRocksPositionObjectsGardenImpulseBoardsCagesSculpture Author:Jasper Johns
“Sexual integrity means honestly recognizing our own impulses and desires and honoring them, whether or not we choose to act on them. If we value integrity, we must also value diversity in sexual expression and orientation, recognizing that there is no one truth, or one way, that fits everyone.Sexuality is sacred because through it we make a connection with another self - but it is misused and perverted when it becomes an arena of power-over, a means of treating another - or oneself - as an object.” IfsWayMeanSelfDesireValuesObjectsExpressionFitIntegrityDiversityConnectionsSacredOneselfSexualityHonestlyOne WayImpulseRecognizingArenaOrientationMisused Book:Dreaming the Dark Source: Dreaming the Dark
“Reflection brakes men cowards. There is no object that can be put in competition with life, unless it is viewed through the medium of passion, and we are hurried away by the impulse of the moment.” MenMomentsPassionObjectsReflectionCompetitionMediumsImpulseCowardBrake Author:William Hazlitt
“The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.” WorldGivingBelieveStatesReasonWisdomHandsWould BeIndividualI BelieveNationsResponsibilityMovementObjectsDevelopmentHealthySocialismImpulseReason WhyUrgesStrongestRegulationInitiativeOwnershipAntidotePersonal ResponsibilityBusiness WorldSupervisionLawlessness Book:History as Literature and Other Essays Source: History as Literature and Other Essays
“I think of consciousness as a bottomless lake, whose waters seem transparent, yet into which we can clearly see but a little way.But in this water there are countless objects at different depths; and certain influences will give certain kinds of those objects an upward influence which may be intense enough and continue long enough to bring them into the upper visible layer. After the impulse ceases they commence to sink downwards.” ThinkingWayGivingKindMayLittlesLongDifferentEnoughSeemsCertainWaterConsciousnessInfluenceObjectsDepthCeaseIntenseImpulseVisibleLakesLayersTransparent Book:Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce Source: Collected papers of Charles Sanders Peirce