"important difference between photographers and painters is that painters start with an empty canvas to which they add elements, while a photographer starts with an original motif and finds ways to reduce the figurative elements."
Fotografiska museum, Sweden
"Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing" — John Stuart Mill
Pattern study. Started to explore some basics of how patterns are made and even with basics, it seems that there are a lot of things to explore.
#pattern#motion#p5js#creativeCoding
This Bowie interview absolutely never gets old and is never any less mind- blowing. In the context of the time (1999) it’s almost unfathomable the understanding he had of what was about to happen to the world. Just incredible.
“A good will isn’t good because of what it effects or accomplishes, it’s good in itself. Even if by utmost effort the good will accomplishes nothing it would still shine like a jewel for its own sake as something which has its full value in itself” Immanuel Kant
"We rarely have the honesty to remember how alone we are. The death of those we loved reminds us of what dishonesty had concealed from us: our profound solitude and our impending death. In the quest for honesty, death is a cruel but excellent teacher." Walter A. Kaufmann
"Often we mourn the death of others because it leaves us lonely. But we do not hate sleep because we are sometimes lonely when others have gone to sleep and we lie awake. Death, like sleep, can mean separation; it usually does." Walter A. Kaufmann
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves” — Carl Jung