Action Infers Onus

A blog that contains equal[ish] parts ramblings, social improvements/ oddities, art, and other stuff.

“if our criticism aspires to anything beyond soft science, the efficacy of images must be the cause of criticism and not its consequence, the subject of criticism and not its object. And this … is why I direct your attention to the language of visual affect – to the rhetoric of how things look – to the iconography of desire – in a word, to beauty”
—   Dave Hickey

“The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions.”
—   Susan Sontag 

(Source: wordsnquotes.com, via wordsnquotes)

chaosophia218:

Ancient Alphabets.

Thedan Script - used extensively by Gardnerian Witches
Runic Alphabets - they served for divinatory and ritual purposes, as well as the more practical use; there are three main types of Runes; Germanic, Scandinavian/Norse, and Anglo-Saxon and they each have any number of variations, depending on the region from which they originate 
Celtic and Pictish - early Celts and their priests, the Druids, had their own form of alphabet known as “Ogam Bethluisnion”, which was an extremely simple alphabet used more for carving into wood and stone, than for general writing, while Pictish artwork was later adopted by the Celts, especially throughout Ireland
Ceremonial Magick Alphabets - “Passing the River”, “Malachim” and “Celestial” alphabets were used almost exclusively by ceremonial magicians


(via chaosophia218)

contemporaryartdaily: “ Cerith Wyn Evans at White Cube ”

contemporaryartdaily:

Cerith Wyn Evans at White Cube

“Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.”
—   Virginia Woolf, Orlando: A Biography
(via wordsnquotes)

(Source: wordsnquotes.com, via wordsnquotes)

artruby:

Sara VanDerBeek at The Approach.

(via artruby)

“Fiction, like many drugs can be abused. You can lose yourself in it, and to it. But it also has the power to sharpen our perception of life, and bring reality back into focus.”

last-picture-show:

Herbert Bayer, Diagramm erweiterte Sichtfeld ( Diagram extended Field of Vision), 1935

(via culturehunt)

“Don’t forget, a person’s greatest emotional need is to feel appreciated.”
—   H. Jackson Brown Jr. 

(Source: creatingaquietmind, via amberesner)

“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.”
—   Frank Herbert, Dune 
(via wordsnquotes)

(Source: wordsnquotes.com, via wordsnquotes)

“The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too”
—   Ernest Hemingway

“Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.”
—   Frank Herbert, Dune

magictransistor:

Chris Foss, Concept art related to Alejandro Jodorowsky’s unrealised film adaptation of Frank Herbert’s Dune, c. 1975-1981.

“Art is basically made by dissatisfied people who are willing to find some means to relieve the dissatisfaction.”
—   John Chamberlain

“I am not I,
you are not you,
and they are not they”