“It was the typical illusion of space — the belief that whatever is far away is different, and the farther away it is, the more different it is.”
Ryszard Kapuściński - Journalist & writer
June 18, 1978: An abandoned pier collapsed into the Hudson River at Bethune Street in Greenwich Village, but that didn’t faze sunbathing New Yorkers. After all, they considered the piers their beaches, according to an article published two years later. “The pier in the Village replaces the stoop,” one West Village resident, Robert Lienhardt, was quoted as saying. “There is no other major place to get the sun.” Photo: Paul Hosefros/The New York Times
“Take, for an example, a tree. “I don’t mean that, seeing the tree through my window, I work at copying it. The tree is also the sum total of its effect on me….I shan’t get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully….But only after identifying myself with it. I have to create an object that resembles the tree. The sign for the tree, and not the sign that other artists may have found for the tree.”
A letter from Henri Matisse to the writer Louis Aragon in 1942
Australia deemed world’s happiest nation
- Australia is the world’s happiest nation based on criteria including income, jobs, housing, and health, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development said.
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“Nothing happens until something moves.”
Albert Einstein (via girlwithoutwings)
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus (via theunquotables)
“The world is changed by examples, not by opinions.”
