EPEOLATRY

"To be a poet is a condition, not a profession."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 16:37:56 +0100

“To be a poet is a condition, not a profession.”

- Robert Frost

"I’ve been called anti-feminist before and it makes me really mad. I don’t do my job for..."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 15:40:04 +0100

“I’ve been called anti-feminist before and it makes me really mad. I don’t do my job for men, I do it because I love the make-up, the costumes and the history of showgirls.”

- Dita Von Teese

"A good artist has less time than ideas."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:56:28 +0100

“A good artist has less time than ideas.”

- Martin Kippenberger

"Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 14:45:09 +0100

“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without zest.”

- Christian Dior

"You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 13:12:33 +0100

“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"I am increasingly being dissatisfied with the context of the contemporary art space as an arena..."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:36:29 +0100

“I am increasingly being dissatisfied with the context of the contemporary art space as an arena where I want to put my work. Things are given a spurious significance by being in the gallery now; it used to be you built the gallery to put the significant objects in, now you put insignificant objects in the gallery to give them significance. That’s worn out now, it was a novel thought 100 years ago, when Duchamp said ‘artists will just be people who point’, that was an interesting thought. Now, it’s boring. I get tired of a lot of art because it’s not special enough.”

- Grayson Perry

"Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions..."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:32:41 +0100

“Perhaps it is better to wake up after all, even to suffer, rather than to remain a dupe to illusions all one’s life.”

- Kate Chopin

"Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:29:59 +0100

“Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.”

- Bertrand Russell

"If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will..."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:22:00 +0100

“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.”

- Vincent Van Gogh

"You never stop waiting for the real story to start, because the only real story in the end is that..."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:20:06 +0100

“You never stop waiting for the real story to start, because the only real story in the end is that you die.”

- Jonathan Franzen

"Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:17:29 +0100

“Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”

- Allen Ginsberg

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a..."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 12:15:01 +0100

“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant’s revolving door.”

- Albert Camus

"Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when..."

Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:53:26 +0100

“Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine; now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.”

- Thomas Szasz

"Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to..."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 19:45:10 +0100

“Too many people spend money they haven’t earned, to buy things they don’t want, to impress people they don’t like.”

- Will Smith

"A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:55:00 +0100

““A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel.””

- Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:38:21 +0100

“In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.”

- William S. Burroughs

"I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics,..."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:25:28 +0100

“I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn’t have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in and to be left alone.”

- Charles Bukowski

"It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 15:24:47 +0100

“It’s like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.”

- Haruki Murakami

"The first draft of anything is shit."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:43:06 +0100

“The first draft of anything is shit.”

- Ernest Hemingway

"Will find nice sensible boyfriend and stop forming romantic attachments to any of the following:..."

Sat, 02 Jun 2012 14:38:00 +0100

“Will find nice sensible boyfriend and stop forming romantic attachments to any of the following: alcoholics, workaholics, sexaholics, commitment-phobics, peeping toms, megalomaniacs, emotional fuckwits, or perverts. Will especially stop fantasizing about a particular person who embodies all these things.”

- Bridget Jones’s Diary