For the Ride of Your Life:


"It may well be that there is no human urge more fundamental than that of making a mark"-

In the words of Chuck Close: "You Just Have to Show Up



"I would like to make something that is real in itself," [Arthur Dove] once wrote, "that does not remind anyone of any other thing, and that does not have to be explained like the letter A, for instance."

“Art is never an end in itself; it is only an instrument for tracing the lines of lives.”

—Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari (qtd. in West)

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Monday, July 25, 2011

Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty



"It is important to look at death because it is a part of life. It is a sad thing, melancholic but romantic at the same time. It is the end of a cycle---everything has to end. The cycle of life is positive because it gives room for new things."

"I am about what goes through people's minds, the stuff that people don't want to admit or face up to. The shows are about what's buried in people's psyches" L.A. McQueen

"You've got to know the rules to break them. That's what I'm here for, to demolish the rules but to keep the tradition"- L.A McQueen

"Let me not forget the use of my own hands, that of a craftsman with eyes...that reflect the technology around me" L.A.McQueen

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