Werner Herzog (via riazm)
feh! How utterly pedestrian!
(actually, I agree with this beautiful sentiment)
This is where Jack Kirby lived. A place where you can see that everything is connected, and that everything is ideas, and that everything can be expressed through visual narrative — which is, itself, nothing but a series of connections.
Everything is comics. Comics are air. Cave paintings, the Stations of the Cross, the Bayeux Tapestry, woodcut novels, army maintenance guides, airplane safety cards — all comics. Comics are everywhere, the ideoplasmic universe of human culture from its dawn to one second ago and up the line until the sun goes dark. Nothing but words and pictures: but they are what define the way we frame ideas and experiences. They do anything.
- Warren Ellis, Do Anything #21
next time someone asks me why i read comics…..
Henri Nouwen (via azspot)
The purpose of the form is to convey the shape of fighting. When the spirit of fighting is internalized, the form is forgotten. Where can I find the man who has forgotten the form? He is the one I would like to fight…. Or uhh, actually, no. He would probably kick my ass. But he’d be a great guy to learn from! Much like my Sifu who dropped this gem earlier:
“Because a form is longer, fancier or claims to be older, means nothing. A punch to the face needs no pretense of historical relevance”
See also the classic, “It is like a finger pointing away to the moon. Do not concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory”
don’t fool yourself that this isn’t what it takes
(Doktor Sleepless warning sign via the Avatar Press Flickr)
