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Cézanne in his studio was generating his own revolution, not an industrial revolution that would make once-costly objects available to everyone, but a revolution in appreciation, a far deeper process, that would get us to notice what we already have to hand. Instead of reducing prices, he was raising levels of appreciation – which is a move perhaps
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
The Gutenberg Parenthesis: The Age of Print and Its Lessons for the Age of the Internet
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- Most movie studios are over-committed to a production schedule; they won’t wait until mid-production, even if the movie stinks
- They force things into the marketplace before they are fully done
- For Bob, this means a lack of commitment to excellence. He is a big believer in the relentless pursuit of perfection (kinda like Steve Jobs)
- “No one is ever go
Bob Iger • Creators, Creativity, and Technology with Bob Iger
But the real dance will continue. Artists will continue to need context. It's what brings value and understanding to their work. People — many of them also artists — will continue to delight in interpreting and helping other people understand creative work. It's what brings us joy. This is the dance that matters. It hasn't stopped and it won't stop... See more
Yancey Strickler • The prestige recession
art and commerce
where the worlds of art and commerce collide, for better and for worse
Keely Adler and • 10 cards
media, research, and analysis.
Martin Gurri • Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
He saw all this because he was a poet, though in practice a bad poet. It is too often forgotten that just as a bad man is nevertheless a man, so a bad poet is nevertheless a poet.
G. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
that “a work of art is something new in the world that changes the world to allow itself to exist.”