As I have since learned very well, little children strongly dislike being given more help than they ask for.
How Children Learn by John Holt 3:09pm on October 21, 2017His message could be summed up, You cannot learn anything about yourself from your own experience, but must believe whatever we experts tell you.
How Children Learn by John Holt 3:08pm on October 21, 2017But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3:03pm on October 21, 2017I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3:03pm on October 21, 2017I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3:02pm on October 21, 2017The “well-rounded man.” This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 3:01pm on October 21, 2017Given the precision and the vagueness, you are forced to re-see the lilacs of your own experience.
Portraits — John Berger 3:01pm on October 21, 2017The Impressionist vocabulary of images is that of a popular dream, the awaited, beloved, secular Sunday.
Portraits — John Berger 3:00pm on October 21, 2017I do not want to suggest that I saw more in 1973 than in 1963. I saw differently. That is all.
Portraits — John Berger 2:59pm on October 21, 2017But what engaged Bellini was not light which, destroying darkness, enables us to distinguish one object from another; it was, rather, the way that, when light is diffused, it creates a unity of all the objects that it falls on.
Portraits — John Berger 2:59pm on October 21, 2017They both want it understood that not to resist is to be indifferent, that to forget or not to know is also to be indifferent, and that to be indifferent is to condone.
Portraits — John Berger 2:59pm on October 21, 2017Throughout history, there are always new terrors – even if a few disappear, yet there are no new happinesses – happiness is always the old one.
Portraits — John Berger 2:58pm on October 21, 2017I won’t make the same mistake again. I’ll make others, of course.
Portraits — John Berger 2:57pm on October 21, 2017The images convincingly represent men, trees, hills, helmets, stones. And one knows that such things grow, develop, and have a life of their own, just as one knows that the acrobat can fall. Consequently, when here their forms are made to exist in perfect correspondence, you can only feel that all that has previously occurred to them, has occurred in preparation for this presented moment. Such a painting makes the present the apex of the whole past.
Portraits — John Berger 2:57pm on October 21, 2017Imagine then what happens when somebody comes upon the silence of the Fayum faces and stops short. Images of men and women making no appeal whatsoever, asking for nothing, yet declaring themselves, and anybody who is looking at them, alive! They incarnate, frail as they are, a forgotten self-respect. They confirm, despite everything, that life was and is a gift.
Portraits — John Berger 2:56pm on October 21, 2017The sitter had not yet become a model, and the painter had not yet become a broker for future glory. Instead, the two of them, living at that moment, collaborated in a preparation for death, a preparation which would ensure survival. To paint was to name, and to be named was a guarantee of this continuity.
Portraits — John Berger 2:55pm on October 21, 2017The real issue with speed is not just how fast can you go, but where are you going so fast? It doesn’t help to arrive quickly if you wind up in the wrong place.
The art of finding what you didn’t know you were looking for 1:51pm on October 13, 2017If you draw, the world becomes more beautiful, far more beautiful. Trees that used to be just scrub suddenly reveal their form. Animals that were ugly make you see their beauty. If you then go for a walk, you’ll be amazed how different everything can look. Less and less is ugly if every day you recognize beautiful forms in ugliness and learn to love them.
Austin Kleon — If you draw, the world becomes more beautiful, far… 6:06pm on September 20, 2017It is as if the white tribe united in demonstration to say, “If a black man can be president, then any white man—no matter how fallen—can be president.”
Donald Trump Is the First White President – The Atlantic 10:58pm on September 10, 2017