Leaders have the privilege and responsibility of going first. The most powerful way that anybody can lead is by example.
Why do men fight for their servitude as stubbornly as though it were their salvation?
The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves, but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. Repressive forces don’t stop people from expressing themselves, but rather, force them to express themselves. What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing the rare, or ever rarer, the thing that might be worth saying.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
A creator is someone who creates their own impossibilities, and thereby creates possibilities.
To become imperceptible oneself, to have dismantled love in order to become capable of loving. To have dismantled one's self in order finally to be alone and meet the true double at the other end of the line. A clandestine passenger on a motionless voyage. To become like everybody else; but this, precisely, is a becoming only for one who knows how to be nobody, to no longer be anybody. To paint oneself gray on gray.
Write, form a rhizome, increase your territory by deterritorialization, extend the line of flight to the point where it becomes an abstract machine covering the entire plane of consistency.
Drawing is the representation of form - the graphic expression of a visual experience.
If you are lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.
Discipline is the fuel of achievement.
You know, the thing that struck me about Civil War music was how bloody it was; it was full of hatred. There was incredible vitriol in it.