“To let oneself be so far possessed by blindly accepted conventions as to take a hand in enforcing them on other people is to lose the independence of judgement that would enable one to solve the numerous problems for which there are no rules of thumb.” — Henry Watson Fowler, A Dictionary Of Modern English Usage (Second Edition)
Draculon by Nicolas Barrome.
This is painted on the entrance to Open Bach which is a hybrid creation space bringing together artist studios and an art gallery.
June 12, 2020
8 rue Jean Sébastien Bach,
13th Arrondissement,
Paris, France
“My dream was that someday a sensitive stranger from the other school would come in, see what I was reading and how I was reading it, and know that I was a rare and extraordinary person.” — Sarah Chihaya, “Public Affairs,” The Point (2020-05-29)
“Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.” — Josh Billings, “Lobstir Sallad,” The Complete Works of Josh Billings
He uses a third person to criticize himself in the third person. Small mercies are like painted flowers, they never wilt.
If the safe has booze miniatures it is not because the hotel thinks alcohol is very valuable. Carelessness causes concern.
Carefree confused with carelessness. Or is it the other way around? Chair number eleven is still incoherent.
The actors may be sharing a scene but each is in his own movie. They don’t even have a script. Yes, and maybe it is time to bring the improvisation to a shared reality.
Listen, a great silence is not all that great.
“Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive.” — John Dryden, The Hind and the Panther
“Biology gives you a brain. Life turns it into a mind.” — Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex
Milliner’s Hands by Case Maclaim.
This is part of a series gestures painted by the German muralist Case Maclaim on the enclosures of the 19M construction site.
June 12, 2020
2 place Skanderbeg,
19th Arrondissement,
Paris, France
“I believe it may be laid down as a general rule that their confidence in and obedience to a government will commonly be proportioned to the goodness or badness of its administration.” — Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 27, New York Packet (1787-12-25)
“Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we’ve placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.” — Brad Watson, Last Days of the Dog-Men
