i hate quoters. i hate people people that wak around with quote journals and start writing pieces with quotes and quote the whole goddamn library without ever saying anything interesting of their own.
however.
since the blog is on hiatus until my fragile confidence is restored (i'm so goddamn dramatic, i know) i found this quote too interesting to pass up. but maybe it's only interesting to me. but it's sure as hell more interesting than anything i have to say at the moment...
"An ad that pretends to be art is -- at absolute best -- like somebody who smiles warmly at you only because he wants something from you. This is dishonest, but what's sinister is the cumulative effect that such dishonesty has on us: since it offers a facsimile or simulacrum of goodwill without goodwill's real spirit, it messes with our heads and eventually starts upping our defenses even in cases of genuine smile and real art and true goodwill. it makes us feel confused and lonely and impotent and angry and scared. It causes despair."
and so the job hunt, and chance to inflict these emotions on the thoughtess masses, continues...
3 comments:
i like quotes when relevant. Somebody else may have just possibly considered, and stated something worth hearing again. Now, if it's spoonfuls of mental pabulum, substituting your own capacity of real thought, that's another matter.
Good quote and very apt to us all. But where's the quote about what actually creativity can do?
oh i forgot. it's from a piece david foster wallace wrote about going on a cruise.
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