#thingswithtext

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Liz Ensz

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If you listen first, and write later, then whatever you write will have had time to filter through your brain, and you’ll be in what you say. This is what makes you exist. If you are only a reflector of information, are you really there?

Jaron Lanier, after asking people to not text or tweet during his lecture

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breakfast is a little unrepresented[in art]. It’s an intimate meal. You can eat it alone or with the person you just slept with or one of your siblings. It’s before the family has joined. Mom’s still upstairs or dad’s gone out or somebody’s eating in their underwear. I think it’s before you feel poor each day. By dinner, I feel poor.

Jerry Saltz

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Truth

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street knowledge art, as seen in Chicago

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Nihilist Memes

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What might be called 'the artistic temperament' is a subject about which many people have grandiose, romantic notions. All those biopics with people staring hard out windows at beautiful scenes, pen in hand, bearing the fruits of louche genius while maintaining excellent dental hygiene. Whoever the culprit, we clearly like our geniuses to be 'consumed' by their craft, and we like them tortured—and if possible, drunk. The idea, broadly put, is that the liquor frees up creative energy. Or else, that an artist drinks to soothe the ravages of creativity on his psyche.

Michelle Dean