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Mur Murs (Agnès Varda, 1981)

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Robert Mapplethorpe

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My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Jim Carrey

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Stranger Than Paradise (1984) dir. Jim Jarmusch

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James Baldwin, Colored Entrance, North Carolina, Durham, Photo by Steve Schapiro, 1963

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But you know, when the Israeli’s pick up guns, or the Poles, or the Irish, or any white man in the world –says ‘give me liberty or give me death’ the entire white world applauds. But a Black man says exactly the same thing. Word for word. He is judged a criminal and treated like one. And everything possible is done to make an example of this bad nigga so there won’t be any more like him. - James Baldwin (1969)

#James Baldwin #blm #blacklivesaresacred

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Love | Gaspar Noé | 2015

#love #Gaspar Noé #love 2015

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"Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place"... (And what is actual is actual only for one time And only for one place.)

T. S. Eliot from Ash Wednesday (1930)

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La Jetée (Chris Marker, 1962)

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Cy Twombly, The Fire that Consumes All before It, 1978. 

Oil, oil crayon and graphite on canvas

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I prefer to see with closed eyes.

Josef Albers (via quotemadness)

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Josef Albers Linear Construction 1936

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#tonimorrison #quote

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Angela Davis and Toni Morrison on March 28, 1974. Photo by Jill Krementz.

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Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: “It’s not where you take things from - it’s where you take them to.“

Jim Jarmusch