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chriswillcox

  1. a completely revamped site: chriswillcox.com
  2. A problem with language: A thin line divides personal expression and personal invocation.
  3. "Irony is the song of a bird that has come to love its own cage." Lewis Hyde
  4. Make the perfect more human.
  5. By creating a context, the content creates itself.
  6. "The needs of painting are like those of a ruinous mistress, you can do nothing without money, and you never have enough of it." Van Gogh
  7. Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
  8. Some new musings about subway schedules, ipod playlists, oil painting, and the possibility of free will. goo.gl/GtC2o
  9. To believe one must have lost God. To paint one must have lost art.
  10. There's a serious fire right off the West Side Highway - anyone know what's going on? Looks like its around 140th.
  11. Too professional for the amateurs, too amateur for the professionals.
  12. What is the job of a painting? bit.ly/ltB1Sm #aesthetics #philosophy #art
  13. When we talk about frames, we put them in other frames. Nevertheless, frames exist to make sensible that which is unframed.
  14. @DeepakChopra the phrase "infinite" is a label too. We need definitions to understand that which is too large to comprehend by itself.
  15. Everything that exists is structured. In order to create anything we must first create a structure for it.
  16. The human brain contains 100 billions neurons, each of which forms about 1000 synapses: More connections in the brain than stars in the sky.
  17. Every moment is a unique and profound experience unlike any ever before.
  18. Come check my open studio this weekend at #Northside festival! bit.ly/j78NHu -- no. 116, 57 Grand Studios.
  19. @chichiichia sometimes you need to come to terms with the fact that you're becoming a cliche of yourself