Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be unhappy because you'd never be able to reach it. You can incrementally improve your life, but you never quite experience the glamour. You never quite get to your utopia, or whatever it is. And once you realize that you can be quite Buddhist about it, and say, "Well, okay, I'm just going to keep detached from it all."
Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can tell truth throug… - Momus
Pablo Picasso said, "Art is the lie that tells the truth," and it's not a terribly radical statement. It's always been that you can tell truth throug…
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Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's always … - Momus
Design is interesting because it's utopian. Art is often a jaundiced commentary on contemporary life. Design is always about the future; it's always …
Every lie creates a parallel world.. a world in which it is true - Momus
Every lie creates a parallel world.. a world in which it is true
I enjoy the optimism of design, even though we can see it as doomed. But I'm telling most people that I'm not writing about design any more this year… - Momus
I enjoy the optimism of design, even though we can see it as doomed. But I'm telling most people that I'm not writing about design any more this year…
When you tell filthy jokes as if they were all really serious, and happening all in the life of one family, it becomes a farcical situation. Imagine … - Momus
When you tell filthy jokes as if they were all really serious, and happening all in the life of one family, it becomes a farcical situation. Imagine …
Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be unhappy bec… - Momus
Franz Kafka once said that happiness consists in having an ideal and not progressing towards it. If you did progress towards it, you'd be unhappy bec…
If you look at the steps being taken towards Scottish independence, they're being dealt with politically in very dull and boring ways. So if you just… - Momus
If you look at the steps being taken towards Scottish independence, they're being dealt with politically in very dull and boring ways. So if you just…
Quantum physics says that there is an infinite number of possibilities and parallels to the one that we know, and every event is also played out in a… - Momus
Quantum physics says that there is an infinite number of possibilities and parallels to the one that we know, and every event is also played out in a…
Maybe it's the Calvinist guilt about capitalism or mercantilism. But, I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as they exist, whic… - Momus
Maybe it's the Calvinist guilt about capitalism or mercantilism. But, I like the idea of doing things that only exist for as long as they exist, whic…
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