the-wind-will-carry-us:

“Remove everything unnecessary. Resist the onslaught of secondary ideas that come with your primary one. Don’t adulterate. The most effective way of refining your work is to keep it short and simple. ‘I didn’t really do anything,’ explained Michelangelo when asked how he created David. ‘The statue already existed in the block of stone. All I did was remove everything unnecessary.’ Rumi advises us not to talk too much, to use the fewest words possible. Consider this idea when telling your stories, when making films, when selecting images, when living life.”

— Abbas Kiarostami

coocoolah:

“I have never been able to understand people with consistent lives – people who, for example, grow up in a liberal Catholic household and stay that way; or who in junior high school are already laying down a record on which to run for president one day. Imagine having no discarded personalities, no vestigial selves, no visible ruptures with yourself, no gulf of self-forgetfulness, nothing that requires explanation, no alien version of yourself that requires humor and accommodation. What kind of life is that?”

— Michael Warner, “Tongues Untied” in Curiouser: On the Queerness of Children (216)

codegoth:

for all intents and purposes

• i am NOT real
• i do NOT have a legal name
• i do NOT have a “face”
• Do Not Think About Me
• I Am Not A Concept