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When we really see each other, we want to help each other. I think people have been obsessed with the wrong question, which is, ‘How do we make people pay for music?’ What if we started asking, ‘How do we let people pay for music?’

— Amanda Palmer on the art of asking and the shared dignity of giving and receiving (via explore-blog)

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Everything I’ve ever let go of has claw marks on it.

— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via poetrist)

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I tried to drown my sorrows but they learned how to swim.

— Frida Kahlo (via viage) -> Maybe the challenge is to learn how to swim with them?

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Simplicity as a Journey

Why do we assume that simple is good? Because with physical products, we have to feel we can dominate them. As you bring order to complexity, you find a way to make the product defer to you. Simplicity isn’t just a visual style. It’s not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves…

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But are not this struggle and even the mistakes one may make better, and do they not develop us more, than if we kept systematically away from emotions?

— Vincent Van Gogh (via ladybadasskillington)

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I think perfection is ugly. Somewhere in the things humans make, I want to see scars, failure, disorder, distortion.

— Yohji Yamamoto (via ampersand-et)

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Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world’s original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, history would have been different.

— Oscar Wilde — The Picture of Dorian Gray (via ludimagister)

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Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.

— Vincent van Gogh (via letsalwaysgolightly)

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The brain appears to possess a special area which we might call poetic memory and which records everything that charms or touches us, that makes our lives beautiful.

— Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via penseesduchoeur)

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The way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart.

— Charles Bukowski (via sitinsilenthope)

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Nobody can save you but yourself - And you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning - this is it.

— Charles Bukowski. (via color-blind)

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Torben

Documentary Filmmaker & Producer :: Storyteller :: Thai Speaker :: Hip-hop Experimentalist

Simplicity as a Journey