Brodovitch Poster Quotes & Sayings

Whether or not the historical Buddha actually suffered from the kind of primitive agonies Winnicott expounded upon, the meditations he taught in the aftermath of his awakening "hold" the mind just as Winnicott described a mother "holding" an infant. In making the observational posture of mindfulness central to his technique, the Buddha established another version of "an auxiliary ego-function" in the psyches of his followers, one that enabled them, to go back to his metaphor of pulling out an arrow, to tend to their own wounds with both their minds and their hearts. Far from eliminating the ego, as I naively believed I should when I first began to practice meditation, the Buddha encouraged a strengthening of the ego so that it could learn to hold primitive agonies without collapse. — Mark Epstein

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort. — Daniel Clowes

In 2012, those French Muslim people voted massively for Francois Hollande against Nicolas Sarkozy. With the results of elections getting even tighter, those votes can make the difference. I am obviously not in favour of a "community electorate," however, pressure is so great on them that I can easily understand how it can affect their votes. — Tariq Ramadan

No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. — Banana Yoshimoto

Money is to be sought for first of all; virtue after wealth.
[Lat., Quaerenda pecunia primum est; virtus post nummos.] — Horace

Pigpen and Dust chuckle, but the rest of the patrons take an intense interest in their food or menu. — Katie McGarry

Reader, if thou intendest to go any farther, I would entreat thee to stay here a little. If thou art, as many in this pretending age, a sign or title gazer, and comest into books as Cato into the theatre, to go out again, - thou hast had thy entertainment; farewell! — John Owen

I don't know what that is. I don't have Facebook."
"You don't have Facebook?" I gasp. "How in the world do you know what's going on with your friends if you don't have Facebook?"
"I call them and say 'hey, what's going on? How are things? Anything new?'"
"Oh, yeah, I guess you could do that." He squeezes my hand and chuckles. — Aurora Rose Reynolds

Words are not the answer. Only the feelings you as an individual get from them are. — Matthew Donnelly

We feel more and more intensely about the music we make. It's unexpected, and not always what you would think of in Beach House. It's all art in the end. We aren't making records because we have to; it's because it's what we want to express. — Victoria Legrand

I don't do romance, in the same way I don't do heroin Russian roulette, or nude alligator wrestling. I consider all of the above self-destructive, and demeaning and these are things up with which I will not put. — D.D. Barant

Jade blinked. It was only for a fraction of a second but she could have sworn the the house had changed shape. — Richard J. Ward