Action Infers Onus

A blog that contains equal[ish] parts ramblings, social improvements/ oddities, art, and other stuff.

[actioninfersonus]

if our criticism aspires to anything beyond soft science, the efficacy of images must be the cause of criticism and not its consequence, the subject of criticism and not its object. And this … is why I direct your attention to the language of visual affect – to the rhetoric of how things look – to the iconography of desire – in a word, to beauty

Dave Hickey

[wordsnquotes]

The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.

Susan Sontag 

[chaosophia218]

Ancient Alphabets. Thedan Script - used extensively by Gardnerian Witches Runic Alphabets - they served for divinatory and ritual purposes, as well as the more practical use; there are three main types of Runes; Germanic, Scandinavian/Norse, and Anglo-Saxon and they each have any number of variations, depending on the region from which they originate  Celtic and Pictish - early Celts and their priests, the Druids, had their own form of alphabet known as “Ogam Bethluisnion”, which was an extremely simple alphabet used more for carving into wood and stone, than for general writing, while Pictish artwork was later adopted by the Celts, especially throughout Ireland Ceremonial Magick Alphabets - “Passing the River”, “Malachim” and “Celestial” alphabets were used almost exclusively by ceremonial magicians

[contemporaryartdaily]

Cerith Wyn Evans at White Cube

[wordsnquotes]

Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.

Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography (via wordsnquotes)

[artruby]

Sara VanDerBeek at The Approach.

[actioninfersonus]

Fiction, like many drugs can be abused. You can lose yourself in it, and to it. But it also has the power to sharpen our perception of life, and bring reality back into focus.

[last-picture-show]

Herbert Bayer, Diagramm erweiterte Sichtfeld ( Diagram extended Field of Vision), 1935

[creatingaquietmind-deactivated2]

Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.

H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

[wordsnquotes]

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

Frank Herbert, Dune  (via wordsnquotes)

[actioninfersonus]

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too

Ernest Hemingway

[actioninfersonus]

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

Frank Herbert, Dune

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Chris Foss, Concept art related to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unrealised film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, c. 1975-1981.

[actioninfersonus]

Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.

John Chamberlain

[actioninfersonus]

I am not I, you are not you, and they are not they

[wordsnquotes]

You think because he doesn’t love you that you are worthless. You think that because he doesn’t want you anymore that he is right – that his judgement and opinion of you are correct. If he throws you out, then you are garbage. You think he belongs to you because you want to belong to him. Don’t. It’s a bad word, ‘belong.’ Especially when you put it with somebody you love. Love shouldn’t be like that…You can’t own a human being. You can’t lose what you don’t own. Suppose you did own him. Could you really love somebody who was absolutely nobody without you? You really want somebody like that? Somebody who falls apart when you walk out the door? You don’t, do you? And neither does he. You’re turning over your whole life to him. Your whole life, girl. And if it means so little to you that you can just give it away, hand it to him, then why should it mean any more to him? He can’t value you more than you value yourself.

Toni Morrison (via wordsnquotes)

[magictransistor]

Petrus Apianus. Astronomicum Cæsareum. 1540.