Words and images of others I find idiocyncratic, intriguing and inspirational.
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“Our attention spans are now thought to be less than that of a goldfish - eight seconds.” - Sandi Mann
Illustration by Ture Ekroos
Boring is the new interesting. - Guy Delancey
Images by Inge Morath and Saul Steinberg
“If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” - Ancient Chinese Proverb
Illustration: Julia Pott
Don’t get lost on this planet Earth. Things happen for a reason. - Artist William Tyler
“I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.” - David Bowie
“If there is any hope for the world at all, it does not live in climate-change conference rooms or in cities with tall buildings. It lives low down on the ground, with its arms around the people who go to battle everyday to protect their forests, their mountains and their rivers because they know that the forests, the mountains and the rivers protect them.” - Arundhati Roy
Photo by Luiz Vasconcelos.
Bill Moyers Question: Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt is a tough book. It’s not Dispatches from Disneyworld. It paints some very stark portraits of poverty, despair, destructive behaviour. What makes you think people want to read that sort of thing these days?
Chris Hedges Answer: That’s not a question that Joe Sacco and I ever asked. It is absolutely imperative that we begin to understand what unfettered, unregulated capitalism does – the violence of that system.
Painting by Paco Pomet in Banksy’s Dismaland.
“If we lie to the government, it’s a felony. But if they lie to us, it’s politics.” - Bill Murray
Illustration by Dave Merrell
“You deserve to take up space.” - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Artwork by Pamela Phatsimo
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.” - Dr. Suess
Photo by Juan Carlos Paz
“Your intuition and your intellect should be working together, making love. That’s how it works best.” Madeleine L’Engle
Photo by http://photocosma.net/.
“We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind. But the human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of other isms, who have been terribly killing our greatness, our possible greatness, our possible beauty.” - Eduardo Galeano
“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.” ― Kurt Vonnegut
“I don’t think the potential for comics in nonfiction has been exploited nearly as much as it could be.” - Scott McCloud
Joan Fontaine reading comics.
"The last thing I want to do is develop media to get in the way of person-to person interchange because I think all communication should end with either a handshake or a kiss." - George C. Stoney
“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.” - Chuck Palahniuk
Artwork by Neslon Makamo
"The world’s most primitive people have few possessions, but they are not poor. Poverty is not a small amount of goods, nor a relation between means and ends. Above all it is a relation between people.” - Marshall Sahlins
Photo by Megan Laws
"What if we are wrong about climate change, and we create a better world for nothing?" - Anonymous
"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe
Illustration by Micheal Beyers
"In the tradeoff between timeliness and timelessness, choose the latter." - Johnathan Harris
"If you don't become the ocean, you will be seasick every day." - Leonard Cohen
