The Office of Christiana Aretta, Designer http://www.aretta.cc mobile · ui · web design Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:42:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Genius http://www.aretta.cc/genius/ http://www.aretta.cc/genius/#comments Wed, 18 Apr 2012 12:42:51 +0000 Christiana Aretta http://www.aretta.cc/?p=316 Whatever you think can’t be done, somebody will come along & do it. A genius is the one most like himself.
Thelonious Monk
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Reggie Watts
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Don Quixote
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CS Lewis
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Steve Jobs, Wired 2/97
]]> http://www.aretta.cc/importance/feed/ 0 A Positively Divine Understanding http://www.aretta.cc/a-positively-divine-understanding/ http://www.aretta.cc/a-positively-divine-understanding/#comments Fri, 23 Sep 2011 21:00:50 +0000 Christiana Aretta http://www.aretta.cc/?p=287 Continue reading →]]> From around the age of six, I had the habit of sketching from life. I became an artist, and from fifty on began producing works that won some reputation, but nothing I did before the age of seventy was worthy of attention. At seventy-three, I began to grasp the structures of birds and beasts, insects and fish, and of the way plants grow. If I go on trying, I will surely understand them still better by the time I am eighty-six, so that by ninety I will have penetrated to their essential nature. At one hundred, I may well have a positively divine understanding of them, while at one hundred and thirty, forty, or more I will have reached the stage where every dot and every stroke I paint will be alive. May Heaven, that grants long life, give me the chance to prove that this is no lie.
Hokusai, One Hundred Views of Mount Fuji
]]> http://www.aretta.cc/a-positively-divine-understanding/feed/ 0 The Blood That Goes to the Ends of My Fingers http://www.aretta.cc/the-blood-that-goes-to-the-ends-of-my-fingers/ http://www.aretta.cc/the-blood-that-goes-to-the-ends-of-my-fingers/#comments Fri, 02 Sep 2011 16:02:30 +0000 Christiana Aretta http://www.aretta.cc/?p=299 I write with the blood that goes to the ends of my fingers, and it is a very sensuous act.
A. S. Byatt
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Henry Ford
]]> http://www.aretta.cc/to-be-feared/feed/ 0 On “Real” http://www.aretta.cc/on-real/ http://www.aretta.cc/on-real/#comments Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:58:16 +0000 Christiana Aretta http://www.aretta.cc/?p=273 Continue reading →]]> It is no longer a question of imitation, nor duplication, nor even parody. It is a question of substituting the signs of the real for the real, that is to say an operation of deterring every real process via its operational double, a programmatic, metastable, perfectly descriptive machine that offers all the signs of the real and short-circuits all its vicissitudes.
Jean Baudrillard
]]> http://www.aretta.cc/on-real/feed/ 0 A Blessed Unrest http://www.aretta.cc/a-blessed-unrest/ http://www.aretta.cc/a-blessed-unrest/#comments Wed, 11 May 2011 14:42:25 +0000 Christiana Aretta http://www.aretta.cc/?p=270 Continue reading →]]> There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening that is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all of time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist through any other medium and it will be lost. The world will not have it. It is not your business to determine how good it is nor how valuable nor how it compares with other expressions. It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly, to keep the channel open. You do not even have to believe in yourself or your work. You have to keep yourself open and aware to the urges that motivate you. Keep the channel open. … No artist is pleased. [There is] no satisfaction whatever at any time. There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.
Martha Graham
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