Robert L. Peters » Quotable(s)

15 May 2014

Unfuck the Future… at OFFF

Barcelona, Spain

I’m giving my talk at 16:45 today… OFFF Barcelona 2014.

14 May 2014

Art is not the reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.

Jean-Luc Godard

11 May 2014

Here in Barcelona, it’s the architects who built the buildings that made the city iconic who are the objects of admiration, not a bunch of half-witted monarchs.

—Julie Burchill

9 May 2014

A true master reveals it in his (or her) every action.

—Samurai Maxim

6 May 2014

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

—Thornton Wilder (1897-1975)

4 May 2014

You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.

—Maya Angelou

3 May 2014

If you don’t become the ocean, you’ll be seasick every day.

—Leonard Cohen (thanks to Linda Bloomfield for the quotable)

1 May 2014

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

—Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926)

30 April 2014

You cannot point an accusing finger without leaving three directed at yourself.

—Igbo (Nigeria) proverb

(Thanks to Chaz Maviyane-Davies for the truism).

29 April 2014

Whatever You Are, Be a Good One

(reposted from Brain Pickings)

Whatever You Are, Be a Good One is an impossibly charming compendium of 100 wise and timeless thoughts from some of history’s greatest minds, hand-lettered by illustrator Lisa Congdon. The common thread underpinning these quotes — which include such beloved luminaries as Albert Camus, Simone de Beauvoir, Henry James, Anne Lamott, Søren Kierkegaard, and Leo Tolstoy himself — is Congdon’s own sensibility about what it means to live with kindness and integrity, to cherish beauty and ultimately to be a good human being.

See more here.