An autumn leaf, very crisp, fell somewhere in the dark. But it was only the page of a book, turning.
Children aren’t conscious of wanting to run. They’re only aware of wanting to get somewhere quickly.
Our job as creators is to further define any medium.
There is no proposition that does not imply the entire universe; to say “the jaguar” is to say all the jaguars that engendered it, the deer & turtles it devoured, the grass that fed the deer, the earth that was mother to the grass, the sky that gave light to the earth.
The only true paradise is always the paradise we have lost.
It is better to say ‘I’m suffering,’ than to say, ‘This landscape is ugly.’
One of the most satisfying aspects of writing code, for me: Telling a computer to do something, and having it follow your command so literally that it actually reveals to you that the problem you were trying to solve was much more complex than you had originally imagined.
How long does it take to make the woods? As long as it takes to make the world. It is always finished, it is always being made, the act of its making forever greater than the act of its destruction.
There isn’t anyone you couldn’t love once you’ve heard their story.
Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.
if science is about solving the worlds problems, then maybe art is about accepting them
how terrifying and wonderful that you will never be what you once were
Simplicity is not an end in art, but we usually arrive at simplicity as we approach the true sense of things.
The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.
For a long time it had seemed to me that life was about to begin - real life. But there was always some obstacle in the way, something to be gotten through first, some unfinished business, time still to be served, a debt to be paid. Then life would begin. At last it dawned on me that these obstacles were my life.
This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
In California, everyÂthing is green! Not just one green, but all of them.
It makes sense that, having grown up doing everything on a computer, Gen Z-ers have a fuller understanding of the digital universe than analog dinosaurs do. The dinosaurs can say, “You don’t know what you’re missing,” but Gen Z-ers can say, “You don’t understand what you’re getting.”
And then it is another day and another and another, but I will not go on about this because no doubt you too have experienced time.
Make your own Bible. Select and collect all the words and sentences that in all your readings have been to you like the blast of a trumpet.
There is something you find interesting, for a reason hard to explain. It is hard to explain because you have never read it on any page; there you begin.
They look at my paintings and say, “My four-year-old could’ve done that.” And I say, “Yes. But could you?”
Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
It must be emphasised again and again that freedom does not involve spoiling the child. If a baby of three wants to walk over the table, you simply tell him he must not. He must obey, that’s true. But on the other hand, you must obey when necessary. I get out of small children’s rooms if they tell me to get out