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I'll be contacting Webster tomorrow. My suggestion will be absofuckingmazing.
Forge your iron; shape it by force,
not into a flower you already know
but into what can also be a flower
if you think it is and it is so.
A bad word that I can't say that starts with f.
One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
I like to push myself to achieve a certain quality, eliminate the excess detail. I always want a high degree of purity.
An image begins taking shape. Soon, however, it becomes diagonally deformed, like italics, and disappears like a flame blown out. Then the whole process starts again. The image strains to right itself. Trembling, it tries to give concrete form to something. But the image will not come together.
I must learn to express the gentle vibration of things: the intrinsically rough texture. I must find this expression in drawings; in the way in which I draw my nudes here in Paris, more original and at the same time sensitively observed.
Sometimes one sees people butter their slices of bread with long, slow, admiring strokes in the same way in which Tom Sawyer's friends whitewashed the fence. Never butter an entire slice of bread at one time ...
Them up and trying to oil them, sand them, make them into something they could never be again - how
Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust. The shimmer is inside really.
somethingological
Crafting, as the title suggests,
Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are.
Something hot in her began to cool and, in cooling, began to anneal.
...[F]riendship is a method of castration that doesn't use a sharp object.
Feral rearranging. Letting form ferment. Letting form pass through you.
The greatest grossness sometimes accompanies the greatest refinement, as a natural relief.
Refinement creates beauty everywhere. It is the grossness of the spectator that discovers anything like grossness in the object.
Those that are too refined to be simple need to be refined again.
Where stains go to dye."pg. 74
Perfect alchemists I keep who can transmute substances without end, and thus the corner of my garden is an inexhaustible treasure-chest. Here you can dig, not gold, but the value which gold merely represents; and there is no Signor Blitz about it.
My son, all my life I have loved this science so deeply that I can now hear my heart beat for joy.
{Commenting about Louis Pasteur's accomplishment of separating two asymmetric forms of tartaric acid crystals.}
crenellations, the scarlet and the pale, the airy stone and the
This is where the privileged send their screwed-up progeny; no gluing macaroni to construction paper for us." He paused meaningfully. "They only let us CREATE with RICCIOLINI here."
"I don't even know what that is."
"It's very fancy, I assure you
The light was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work tables.
You manufacture beauty with your mind
Children who are resilient often have an appearance of a Teflon coating: nothing seems to faze these children.
It is the speed, the hot, molten effect, the lava flow of sentence into sentence that I need.
Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics
She ate ramen noodles from the vending machine, their texture just a few molecular recombinations from the Styrofoam cup containing them.
A prettiness mummified by years of chalk dust.
All her life she had wanted to squeeze the toothpaste really squeeze it,not just one little squirt ... The paste coiled and swirled and mounded in the washbasin. Ramona decorated the mound with toothpaste roses as if it was a toothpaste birthday cake
regimen limits sugars enough that inadequate filament is taken in, the danger increments for slow processing. Also, when an excess of red meats are expended,
I am not interested in deconsecrating: this is a fashion I hate, it is petit-bourgeois. I want to reconsecrate things as much as possible, I want to re-mythicize them.
A film fable so structured that all alchemical searchings are clearly filmwise (gold being discovered cinematically in each sequence ot mixed black-and-white and color) so that when the drama-discovery is actually made, it acts as a deliberate anti-climax of aesthetic perfection.
People are all diamonds. They are already valuable, brillant and unique in their own right. Sometimes a person can do with a buff, a fluff and a polish to bring out the natural brillance and clarity that has always existed within them.
lagophthalmos - a
Well, if you put enough pressure on coal it turns into pearls!
The science fiction method is dissection and reconstruction.
A human life gains lustre and strength only when it is polished and tempered.
Fiona fixed a slice of bread to the toasting fork and held it out to the flames. So began the ritual. Hot butter melted off the slices of toast and dribbled onto their fingers.
The stripping away of illusion and the struggle to find personal reality can be likened to the peeling of an apple. As one peels away the layers of unreality ... eventually only the core remains.
Desription should be very brief and have an incidental nature.
The Graff Hallucination is a sculptural masterpiece; a celebration of the miracle of coloured diamonds. For many years I have thought about creating a truly remarkable watch that illustrates our all-consuming passion for diamonds. The Hallucination has made my diamond dream a reality.
What's that smell?" Reynolds asked.
That smell is the stuff they grow mushrooms in."
DeForrest sniffed the air. "Shit?" he asked.
Captain Suzie shrugged. "Manure.
Undercook swordfish, and you get rubber. Overcook it, and you lose the fat and succulence.
Fine colour implies a unified relationship, in which each part is subordinate to the whole, and the transitions between them are felt to be as precious and beautiful as the colours themselves. In fact, the colours themselves must be continuously modified and broken as part of the transition.
Mouth cat's-cradled with filaments of gleaming cheese.
Let China's earth, enrich'd with colour'd stains,
Pencil'd with gold, and streak'd with azure veins,
The grateful flavour of the Indian leaf,
Or Mocho's sunburnt berry glad receive.'
MRS. BARBAULD.
Here was an expert who had spent years perfecting her craft, yet one of her best dishes was created under intense pressure, in a couple of hours.
Gallimaufry of ices and trifles and toasts, supervised
We may say that life has borrowed from inanimate processes the same mechanism used in producing these striking structures that are crystals.
Fluoride causes more human cancer, and causes it faster, than any other chemical.
Faffing is good. It is an important part of life. Faffing is when we disconnect from the matrix and idle for a while, like a car. Our body and spirit know deep down that human beings were not made for constant toil so subconsciously creates space through the mechanism of faffing.
Imagining themes that are specific to coating lines, shapes, shades, thoughts, the decoration of our homes and the objects of utility or pure pleasure, adapting its purpose in a material-specific way to metal or wood, marble or fabric - it is, without any doubt, an absorbing occupation.
The mysteries of the materialization, like the mysteries of a hanging, were enhanced by the wall; were made pornographic by the magic lantern slides of morbid imaginations - magic lantern slides projected by the crowd on the blank stone walls.
In the abstract art of cooking,
ingredients trump appliances,
passion supersedes expertise,
creativity triumphs over technique,
spontaneity inspires invention,
and wine makes even the worst culinary disaster taste delicious.
Old age transfigures or fossilizes.
While the alchemist of old sought to turn lead into gold, the modern alchemist has a more noble dream: to turn men from rot to rock
Amazingly flaverly? Or flavored with amazin?
-Francis Vallejo
Bread has been made (indifferent) from potatoes;
And galvanism has set some corpses grinning,
But has not answer'd like the apparatus
Of the Humane Society's beginning,
By which men are unsuffocated gratis:
What wondrous new machines have late been spinning.
Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.
Decay and disease are often beautiful, like the pearly tear of the shellfish and the hectic glow of consumption.
When we speak of the perfection of art, we must recollect what the materials are with which a painter contends with nature. For the light of the sun he has but patent yellow and white lead - for the darkest shade, umber or soot.
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
I was always a great believer in buttered toast.
We called [the] process photomontage, because it embodied our refusal to play the part of the artist. We regarded ourselves as engineers, and our work as construction: we assembled our work, like a fitter.
Seeds pour out oil when pressed.
Grapes pour out wine when squeezed.
Herbs pour out medicine when pounded.
Flowers pour out perfume when crushed.
The gifted pour out excellence when tested.
What can it be about low temperatures
that sharpens the edges of objects?
I like to compare my method with that of painters centuries ago, proceeding from layer to layer.
[The popular impression about some chemists is that] the aquafortis and the chlorine of the laboratories have as effectually bleached the poetry out of them, as they destroy the colours of tissues exposed to their action.
Have you ever met a man who looked so damn delicious that you wanted to sop him up with a hot buttermilk biscuit and inhale him in one gulp?"
"Why, yes, I have," Doris said.
That was a shocker. "Really? What happened?"
"I married him.
Cooking is the transformation of uncertainty (the recipe) into certainty (the dish) via fuss.
EAT, v.i. To perform successively (and successfully) the functions of mastication, humectation, and deglutition.
I put my hand in my pocket and squeeze my rocks and wonder if there is a word for the marks you get on your palm when you squeeze something so hard that the skin is on the verge of ripping.
I Can't Believe It's Not Butter? I can.
I made a study of the ancient and indispensable art of bread-making,
Time can make soft that iron wood.
More butter please.
It isnecessary to destroy the pretended nobility, entirely literaryand traditional, of marble and bronze? The sculptor can use twenty different materials, or even more, in a single work, provided that the plastic emotion requires it.
As with all my work, whether it's a leaf on a rock or ice on a rock, I'm trying to get beneath the surface appearance of things. Working the surface of a stone is an attempt to understand the internal energy of the stone.
Bursts of gold on lavender melting into saffron. It's the time of day when the sky looks like it has been spray-painted by a graffiti artist.
What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?
Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,
Three-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,
Figures pedantical
these summer flies
Have blown me full of maggot ostentation.
When with care we have raised an imaginary treasure of happiness, we find at last that the materials of the structure are frail and perishing, and the foundation itself is laid in the sand.
Grain is the brush stroke of photography.
Taste is improved by cultivation.
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in esthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well. Remark
Enhancement, Not Alteration.
softness overcomes hardness.
Simple, like uncarved wood.
Giacometti knows that space is a cancer on being, and eats everything; to sculpt, for him, is to take the fat off space, he compresses space, so as to drain off its exteriority.
The alchemy of good curating amounts to this: Sometimes, placing one work of art near another makes one plus one equal three. Two artworks arranged alchemically leave each intact, transform both, and create a third thing.
It is only by softening and disguising dead flesh by culinary preparation that it is rendered susceptible of mastication or digestion, and that the sight of its bloody juices and raw horror does not excite intolerable loathing and disgust.
Shedding off one more layer of skin
Keeping one step ahead of the persecutor within
Identify. Improve. Resolve. #nucherte
You'd be surprised what I can do with a butter knife.
The goddess of Applied Science has presented the world with another gift, more precious even than these - the means of dissociating love from propagation.
Style is the substance of the subject called unceasingly to the surface.