The Foregone Sacredness (Meng long guojiang)'s Interests
General
Science
Music
Electronic
Movies
Blade Runner
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The Razor's Edge
Trois couleurs: Bleu
Trois couleurs: Blanc
Trois couleurs: Rouge
Akira
Ghost in the Shell
Ichi the Killer
Izo
Visitor Q
Aguirre: The Wrath of God
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Mein liebster Feind - Klaus Kinski
Cidade de Deus
Battle Royale
American History X
Gozu
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Drunken Master
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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
The Triplets of Belleville
Sid and Nancy
American Beauty
The Bicycle Thief
Leon The Professional
Ghost world
Spirited Away
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Howl's Moving Castle
Ju-on
Kung Fu Hustle
Time of the Wolf
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Gohatto
Jisatsu saakuru
Elling
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Siu lam juk kau
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Hong Kong actor Kim Chan (L) poses by a bronze statue of late Kung-Fu master Bruce Lee after it was unveiled in Hong Kong, November 27, 2005. It took more than 30 years, 100,000 dollars and a lot of convincing, but the late martial arts legend finally got the recognition his legions of fans worldwide feel he deserves with the monument in Hong Kong, the city that made him famous.(AFP/Philippe Lopez)
Harvey
Hustle & Flow
The Weatherman
Yeah that guy
Anchorman
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The Brothers Grimm
Batman begins
Walk the line
*sigh*
Lost in Translation
Human Nature
Bewitched
I'd like a Single Malt Scotch with this one
Broken ...
Elf
Wedding Crashers
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Villa Des Roses
Bon Voyage
House of 1000 Corpses
The Devil's Rejects
War of the Worlds
Blade
Blade 2
Blade Trinity
Napolean Dynamite
School of Rock
Pulp Fiction
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Fight Club
The Shinning
The Island
Vampyr
Le Quai des Brumes
Television
I don't have or watch television anymore except for what I see from the internet.
Seeing Bill Hicks on TV changed my life.
The Muppet Show
The Young Ones
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Robotech
Kyle XY is a fantastic show that I have only seen because of iTunes.
iTunes has made me a fan of this Lost show.
Battlestar Galactica because of iTunes again.
Monk because of iTunes again.
Hogan's Heroes
The Addams Family
The Munsters
The X-Files
The A-Team
Books
Anything by Edgar Allan Poe but "The Raven" is favored
Any of the works of Thomas Hardy. But "Jude the Obscure" was so adored I named my first musical project under my full conduction after the book.
Anything by Hunter S. Thompson
Anything by William Faulkner
Anything by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche. "The voice of beauty speaks gently."
Anything by Joseph Rudyard Kipling
anything by William S. Burroughs
The works and publications of Dr. Nikola Tesla. The man who invented the twentieth century.
Anything about Rudolph Christian Carl Diesel and his engine.
Anything about John Z. DeLorean and his car.
Max Karl Ernst Ludwig Planck the founder of quantum theory. "persevere and continue working"
The works and publications of Albert Einstein
The works of Charles Robert Darwin
The works of Alan Mathison Turing
Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser
Heroes
I don't believe in heroes.
But I do believe in good men.
Howard Robard Hughes, Jr.
Mohandas K. Gandhi
Rev. Martin Luther King
Marlon Brando, Jr.
Muhammad Ali
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Robert Francis Kennedy
I only hope I can be as good as these men without suffering their fate.
James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr.
Albert Arnold "Al" Gore, Jr.
Guernica
Pablo Picasso, 1937
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"Are you upset little friend? Have you been
lying awake worrying? Well, don't worry...I'm here.
The flood waters will recede, the famine
will end, the sun will shine tomorrow,
and I will always be here to take care of you."
---Charlie Brown to Snoopy
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. I'm one of a kind. I've lived a life that's full, down each and every highway, and more, much more than this, I did it my way. I know what I want and I know how to get it. I wanna destroy, possibly. Cause I wanna be Anarchy.
What my horoscope says about me (not that I believe that crap):
I KNOW (THAT I DON'T KNOW ANYTHING).
Key phrase: My need to be innovative, original, and create social change.
Key words: reforming, liberal, progressive, democratic, altruistic, tolerant, friendly, social, people-oriented, independent, freedom-loving, original, bohemian, eccentric, experimental, unorthodox, unconventional, innovative, New Age, metal, intuitive, quick, brilliant, electric, scientific.
Archetypes: The Revolutionary, the Truth Sayer, the Scientist, the Exile. Important here is the electrical interplay between people and groups, always abrasive even in harmonious relationships.
OK, maybe that last bit was a little on point. This is even more on point about me!
"I would not know what the spirit of a philosopher might wish more to be than a good dancer."
quotes from famous artists
Picasso is the reason why I paint. He is the father figure, who gave me the wish to paint.
Francis Bacon
I paint for myself. I don't know how to do anything else, anyway. Also I have to earn my living, and occupy myself.
Francis Bacon
The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.
Francis Bacon
...I paint German artists whom I admire. I paint their pictures, their work as painters, and their portraits too. But oddly enough, each of these portraits ends up as a picture of a woman with blonde hair. I myself have never been able to work out why this happens.
Georg Baselitz
I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.
William Blake
To see far is one thing, going there is another.
Constantin Brancusi
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
Constantin Brancusi
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
Constantin Brancusi
Don't look for obscure formulas or mystery in my work. It is pure joy that I offer you. Look at my sculptures until you see them. Those closest to God have seen them.
Constantin Brancusi
Art is made to disturb. Science reassures. There is only one valuable thing in art: the thing you cannot explain.
Georges Braque
Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
Lewis Carroll
Don't be an art critic, but paint, there lies salvation.
Paul Cezanne
A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
Paul Cezanne
What is one to think of those fools who tell one that the artist is always subordinate to nature? Art is in harmony parallel with nature.
Paul Cezanne
All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.
Paul Cezanne
Great art picks up where nature ends.
Marc Chagall
The beautiful is in nature, and it is encountered under the most diverse forms of reality. Once it is found it belongs to art, or rather to the artist who discovers it.
Gustave Courbet
Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Salvador Dali
Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.
Edgar Degas
What moves men of genius, or rather what inspires their work, is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.
Eugene Delacroix
When I was a kid, a book I read advised young artist to be themselves. That decided it for me. I was a corny kind of guy, so I went in for corn.
Walt Disney
The longer you look at an object, the more abstract it becomes, and, ironically, the more real.
Lucian Freud
I remember Francis Bacon would say that he felt he was giving art what he thought it previously lacked. With me, it's what Yeats called the fascination with what's difficult. I'm only trying to do what I can't do.
Lucian Freud
The object of art is not to reproduce reality, but to create a reality of the same intensity.
Alberto Giacometti
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can. Drawing is still basically the same as it has been since prehistoric times. It brings together man and the world. It lives through magic.
Keith Haring
If I could say it in words there would be no reason to paint.
Edward Hopper
I never paint dreams or nightmares. I paint my own reality.
Frida Kahlo
There is no must in art because art is free.
Wassily Kandinsky
A Good artist has less time than ideas.
Martin Kippenberger
I am rather like a travelling salesman. I deal in ideas. I do much more for people than just paint them pictures.
Martin Kippenberger
In our time there are many artists who do something because it is new; they see their value and their justification in this newness. They are deceiving themselves; novelty is seldom the essential. This has to do with one thing only; making a subject better from its intrinsic nature.
Henri de Toulouse Lautrec
Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master.
Leonardo da Vinci
Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.
Rene Magritte
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.
Henri Matisse
Drawing is like making an expressive gesturewith the advantage of permanence.
Henri Matisse
. . I have always sought to be understood and, while I was taken to task by critics or colleagues, I thought they were right, assuming I had not been clear enough to be understood. This assumption allowed me to work my whole life without hatred and even without bitterness toward criticism, regardless of its source. I counted solely on the clarity of expression of my work to gain my ends. Hatred, rancor, and the spirit of vengeance are useless baggage to the artist. His road is difficult enough for him to cleanse his soul of everything which could make it more so.
Henri Matisse
Creativity takes courage.
Henri Matisse
If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.
Michelangelo
Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I can accomplish.
Michelangelo
I feel the need of attaining the maximum of intensity with the minimum of means. It is this which has led me to give my painting a character of even greater bareness.
Joan Miro
The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
Piet Mondrian
Colour is my day-long obsession, joy and torment. Claude Monet
To be an artist is to believe in life.
Henry Moore
It is important to express oneself...provided the feelings are real and are taken from you own experience.
Berthe Morisot
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye.. it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
Edvard Munch
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
So I said to myself-I'll paint what I see-what the flower is to me but I'll paint it big and they will be surprised into taking the time to look at it-I will make even busy New Yorkers take time to see what I see of flowers.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn't say any other way--things I had no words for.
Georgia O'Keeffe
I am for an art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than sit on its ass in a museum.
Claes Oldenburg
Painting is a means of self-enlightenment.
John Olsen
On the floor I am more at ease. I feel nearer, more a part of the painting, since this way I can walk around it, work from the four sides and literally be in the painting.
Jackson Pollock
The painting has a life of its own.
Jackson Pollock
Every good painter paints what he is.
Jackson Pollock
If you want to have clean ideas, change them as often as you change your shirts.
Francis Picabia
I don't say everything, but I paint everything.
Pablo Picasso
Art washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life.
Pablo Picasso
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is just another way of keeping a diary.
Pablo Picasso
There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God.
Rembrandt
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
Pierre Auguste Renoir
It is a widely accepted notion among painters that it does not matter what one paints as long as it is well painted. This is the essence of academicism. There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.
Mark Rothko
For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh.
Georges Rouault
Everytime I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
John Singer Sargent
It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to, the feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
Vincent Van Gogh
The only time I feel alive is when I'm painting.
Vincent Van Gogh
I want to touch people with my art. I want them to say 'he feels deeply, he feels tenderly.'
Vincent Van Gogh
The emotions are sometimes so strong that I work without knowing it. The strokes come like speech.
Vincent Van Gogh
I have Social Disease. I have to go out every night. If I stay home one night I start spreading rumors to my dogs.
Andy Warhol
Why do people think artists are special? It's just another job.
Andy Warhol
Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.
Andy Warhol
Being born is like being kidnapped. And then sold into slavery.
Andy Warhol
Don't pay any attention to what they write about you. Just measure it in inches.
Andy Warhol
Death means a lot of money, honey. Death can really make you look like a star.
Andy Warhol
An artist is not paid for his labor but for his vision.
James McNeill Whistler
The fine art of painting, which is the bastard of alchemy, always has been always will be, a game. The rules of the game are quite simple: in a given arena, on as many psychic fronts as the talent allows, one must visually describe, the centre of the meaning of existense
Brett Whiteley
Art is the thrilling spark that beats death - thats all
Brett Whiteley
Everything is such a sort of stoned state... I walk around with a bunch of violets in my hand and a sledgehammer and a grain of sand in my head. I am happy.
Brett Whiteley
Who I'd like to meet:
Jehanne la Pucelle better known as Joan of Arc (painting by Jules Bastien-Lepage)
Adriana Lima
Evangeline Lilly
Kate Beckinsale
Ludivine Sagnier
Jessica Biel
'Self-Portrait of the Artist Worrying About His Next Book'
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."-Dr. Seuss
"the man who drew Pooh" EH Shepard.
*****************************************************************Chris Sanders for drawing this guy:
*******************************************************A love like this.
"The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends." If I ever get to meet this newscaster Olbermann, I will gladly shake his hand and tell him what a fine job he has done for America! MSNBC finally reports the real news! I finally have a hero besides Al Gore and Charlie Brown! "I learned this, at least, by my experiment:
that if one advances confidently in the direction
of his dreams, and endeavours to live the life
which he has imagined, he will meet with a
success unexpected in common hours.
He will put some things behind, will pass an
invisible boundary; new, universal, and more
liberal laws will begin to establish themselves
around and within him; or the old laws be
expanded, and interpreted in his favour in a
more liberal sense, and he will live with the
license of a higher order of beings.
In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws
of the universe will appear less complex, and
solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty,
nor weakness weakness. If you have built castles
in the air, your work need not be lost;
that is where they should be.
Now put the foundations under them."
-- Henry David Thoreau
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The greatest artist of all time who painted these. Everytime I see his work I believe I understand more about the world.
The Visage of War
The Enigma of Hitler
Partial Hallucination: Six Apparitions of Lenin on a Piano
Necrophiliac Spring Flowering from a Piano with a Tail
Soft Construction with Boiled Beans - Premonition of Civil War
Impressions of Africa
Melancholy
Diurnal Illusion: the Shadow of a Grand Piano Approaching
Juliet's Tomb
The Persistence of Memory
Enigmatic Elements in the Landscape
Geopoliticus Child Watching the Birth of the New Man
Daddy Longlegs of the Evening... Hope!
Soft Self-Portrait with Grilled Bacon
The Basket of Bread
One Second Before Awakening from a Dream Caused by the Flight of a Bee Around a Pomegranate
Crucifixion
Christ of St. John of the Cross
Meditative Rose
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Hollywood is where I need to go right now!
"What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil."
"The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
So many gods, so many creeds, So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind, Is all this sad world needs. LIGHT N LOVE & A GOODNITE MY DOVES~BREA
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I can’t take back what I’ve done in the past Nor can I retaliate on all that’s been done to me, At best I can learn from experiences I’ve had Shake the chains of regret and be free,
The future has its own set of tests and trials So why dwell upon yesterdays woes, My road only changes if I’m willing to change it The door of opportunity is never closed.
I must free up my psychological arms To make space for better things to come I should dispose of the junk from the past And seek the source where all natural treasures come from.
We are the wardens of the prison in our minds Condemned by guilt, regret and sorrow, But I stay at peace, when I learn to release- Yesterday, and appreciate the hope of tomorrow!
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market by Eric Schlosser
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