life on flower: Archive

July 2010

29 posts

“While computers might set type in flawlessly accurate columns, things that are handmade are beautiful by virtue of their irregularity. I see these imperfections as marks of dignity and integrity, and believe that they bear witness to the artist — and the human — in all of us.” —

Debbie Millman

Excerpt from Fingerprint, by Chen Design Assoc.

“If we let ourselves, we shall always be waiting for some distraction or other to end before we can really get down to our work. The only people who achieve much are those who want knowledge so badly that they seek it while the conditions are still unfavorable. Favorable conditions never come.” — C.S. Lewis

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“Love little things and strive for that which is modest and simple.” —-Elder Thaddeus

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“To take a photograph is to align the head, the eye and the heart. It’s a way of life.” — Henri Cartier Bresson

“The unreal is more powerful than the real. Because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because its only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die. But things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on. If you can change the way people think. The way they see themselves. The way they see the world. You can change the way people live their lives. That’s the only lasting thing you can create.” —Chuck Palahniuk via Jonathan Carroll (via jamaicamakes)