all shall be well all shall be well and all manner of things shall be well julian of norwich

Saturday, January 31, 2009

"Nothing is original. Steal from anywhre that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new filmes, 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 speaks 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 thing from - it’s where you take them to’"

—Jim Jamursch

1 comment:

Zach said...

"the language which provides most of the material for the analysis is a purged language, purged... of the means for expressing any other contents than those furnished to the individuals by their society. The linguistic analyst find this purged language an accomplished fact, and he takes the impoverished language as he finds it, insulating it from that which is not expressed in it... Linguistic philosophy [thereby] suppresses once more what is continually suppressed in this universe of discourse and behavior" -Herbert Marcuse, One-dimensional Man as quoted in Jameson's 'Ideologies of Theory'

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