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The Autobiography of Mark Twain: Vol. 1 is available today. Twain died on April 21, 1910, and specified in handwritten notes that his massive autobiography should not be published for at least 100 years. The 743-page tome is the first of three installments that will be released over the next 5 years.

The Autobiography of Mark Twain: Vol. 1 is available today. Twain died on April 21, 1910, and specified in handwritten notes that his massive autobiography should not be published for at least 100 years. The 743-page tome is the first of three installments that will be released over the next 5 years.


“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.” -Chuck Close. Image from Wisdom. (via yewknee + somethingchanged + wearethedigitalkids)

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who’ll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you’re sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and somthing else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that’s almost never the case.” -Chuck Close. Image from Wisdom. (via yewknee + somethingchanged + wearethedigitalkids)



Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.

- Twain


Being in a rock band, I feel a certain responsibility to have a weird haircut. I mean, who else gets to do that? [laughs]

- Win Butler (via yewknee)


Much of the beauty that arises in art comes from the struggle an artist wages with his limited medium.

- Matisse


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Like all artists I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.

- Dennis Hopper



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Ruscha by Hedi