“In writing, the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject within language; it is, rather, a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.” WritingLanguageSpaceSubjectsCreatingDisappearManifestPins Book:Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology Source: Aesthetics, Method, and Epistemology
“If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.” IfsFeelsJoyStuffGrowthCareersCreativitySubjectsCreationCreatingIntentionCreatorMissionsLife ExperienceQuestsJoyfulDominantAlignmentJoyful LifeTriads Author:Esther Hicks
“You have total control of it, and when you're an actor, you're subject to production design and costumes and directors and studio choices and producer choices, but when you're writing it, you're creating your own little world in your head, peopled with your little characters. No one is in there monkeying with it, at least not at first - though they will. With this and the other projects I'm working on, it'll have to be given away, and it'll have to be someone else's property.” WorldWritingFirstsLittlesCharacterChoicesActorsGivenSubjectsDesignDirectorsProjectsCreatingPropertyProductionsStudiosProducersCostumesProduction Design Author:Rainn Wilson
“You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.” ThinkingKnowsWritingRealDreamRealityRememberSongSleepSubjectsCreatingDown AndImpressionWakingTranceDreamworks Author:Van Morrison
“Through reproductive technology, postmodernist art dispenses with the aura. The fiction of the creating subject gives way to a frank confiscation, quotation, excerptation, accumulation, and repetition of already existing images. Notions of originality, authenticity, and presence... are undermined.” WayGivingArtFictionTechnologySubjectsCreatingNotionAuthenticityOriginalityFrankQuotationsRepetitionAccumulationAuras Book:On the Museum's Ruins Source: On the Museum's Ruins
“I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.” KnowsTryingMadeEndsHappensWould BeDifficultRealizingForgetSituationCuttingSubjectsObjectsProduceBalanceSucceedEqualCreatingCamerasSensitiveSpectatorsOptimalEqual Power Author:Pipilotti Rist
“A photographic close-up is perhaps the purest form of portraiture, creating a confrontation between the viewer and the subject that daily interaction makes impossible, or at least impolite.” FormImpossibleSubjectsCreatingInteractionViewersConfrontationPortraiture Author:Martin Schoeller