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the true meaning of itchy…

✶ “Something can only become an illusion after disillusionment. Before that, it is something real. What caused the disillusionment? ...Why would an image of something which never happened, travel with me for all these years?” -Lynda Barry (1) ✶ most artists fail to convey their sense of passion for the people whose images they paint. “There are too many stiff copies of photographs,” he [Calvin Goodman] said. “The pictures are merely mechanical records of what the camera recorded. They lack a sense of the subject’s emotions or the passion of the artist.” (2) ✶ “A passionate observer. And his painting captures his passion.” -Laurie Helgoe, on Renoir (3) ✶ “So, here I am, working with objects that are impossible to make.” -Bathsheba Grossman (4) ✶ “Earthquakes happen all of a sudden, and they change everything, all at once. But that’s just the surface—that’s just what you can see. Beneath the surface, all along, there’s been this movement[...] and finally, because the insides have already moved, the surface has to move, too. But on the surface, where everyone can see, it happens in a sudden unexpected burst. The ground rolls and thumps. Buildings crumble without warning. It strikes like it’s from out of the blue. But really, hidden, inevitable forces have been at work all along.” -Eric Moffat (5) ✶ en toen kwam er een olifant met een grote snuit, en die blies het verhaaltje uit. (6) ✶ “I don’t mean to stare. Mister, you’ve got crazy hair” -Neil Gaiman/Dave McKean (7) ✶ “Art is part of survival; art is part of the human spirit, an unquenchable expression of who we are. Art is one of the ways in which we say, ‘am alive, and my life has meaning.’” -Karl Paulnack (8) ✶

Both newly-written “traditional” pieces, and also pop/modern pieces that have 3/4 time.