"Applause, applause, life is our cause" Have a very Joni Christmas. youtu.be/r6NZ_2TuLf8?...

Maybe our journeys on this planet are not so different. "From the start I'll take out my ultimate weapon. For Earthlings, this method has always worked." From SOLA ❤️

“Everything continues. I am not interested in endings. What is important is transformation. Every substance, every thought, passes into something else. There is no death in this sense — only metamorphosis.” ~Joseph Beuys,1985

What does it mean to tell the truth in an authoritarian society? Image: Alberto Alicata

S.E. Hinton The Outsiders "When I stepped out into the bright sunlight from the darkness of the movie house, I had only two things on my mind: Paul Newman and a ride home..." (Written at age 16 while she was still in high school... and my sister's favorite book.) #HowBooksBegin

Jimmy Cliff 🎈

David Schmitt She Is A Very Powerful Dreamer

We will be ourselves and free, or die in the attempt. Alice Walker

Andy Warhol The Philosophy of Andy Warhol "I wake up and call B. B is anybody who helps me kill time. B is anybody and I am nobody. B and I." #HowBooksBegin

Meg White is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and sends her guitarist to accept the award. ✨

Julien Jaca If We Love, We Grieve 2025 (wood, plaster, resin, iron and acrylic)

“We arrived at Puerta del Sol and a group of people started throwing stones at us while shouting at the top of their lungs: 'faggots, faggots.' And we ran so they wouldn't hit us. And Federico [García Lorca] says: 'The worst thing is that we're not.' And Dalí: 'Yes, yes: we are.'” ― Maruja Mallo

Source: @kylec.bsky.social An amazing crowd and photo. No Kings, Denver, Colorado.

Oct. 18 No Kings Some pics from Colorado.

So I wanted to turn myself into Monkey D. Luffy and this happened. #aniME #AI

We the people... #Oct18 #NoKings

"My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me." Jane Austin

Claudia Cardinale 🎈

"Politics right now is in a very dark place, and I think the only place for me is to do what I do—make films, create art, watch it as it evolves." Robert Redford 🎈

Nathan Coley You Create What You Will St Mary’s Church, Glynde, UK 2014

"To me art is a form of manifest revolt, total and complete..." Jean Tinguely

If ever there was a live action Lies of P... Timothée Chalamet

Stephen King The Body "The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them--words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were In your head..." #HowBooksBegin

"If I fall, I'll fall five feet four inches forward in the fight for freedom. I'm not backing off." Fannie Lou Hamer In her landmark speech Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired, Hamer recalled receiving brutal beatings for attempting to register to vote. True to her word, she never backed off.

"You’ll learn that all is not in vain All that matters remains" Until Next Life Lorien Testard · Alice Duport-Percier Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 OST youtu.be/-InmpuYOuPM?...

Dennis Hopper Double Standard 1961

Erik Satie Composer In 1917 Satie collaborated with Jean Cocteau and Pablo Picasso to produce Parade, a mixed media performance that included music, dance, and visual art. Satie, Cocteau, and company were charged with “cultural anarchy” and put in jail for 8 days. youtu.be/_Chq1Ty0nyE?...

Lilian Hellman Writer 1905-1984 Known for The Children's Hour, a play about making allegations without regard for the facts. She was blacklisted after her appearance before the House Committee on Un-American Activities... who were making allegations without regard for the facts. #Blacklisted

Robin Isley #GhostRepost

"It is your duty in life to save your dream." - Amedeo Modigliani 1884 – 1920

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My imagination or lack thereof...

Hairstyles and attitudes.

The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting. ~ Milan Kundera Never think you've seen the last of anything. ~ Eudora Welty Anselm Kiefer | Met Museum

16 Magazine from May 1970 when Bobby Sherman only had "6 months to live." Long live Bobby Sherman (and his cool purple striped zebra).

😔 Democracy Derangement Syndrome

"The Black Swan stole her innocence, she became an artist."

"We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Ray Johnson 1927-1995 New York’s “most famous unknown artist.” Ray Johnson was known as a pioneering figure in the worlds of Pop, Fluxus, Conceptual, Mail, and Performance Art in the 1960s. He died of suicide by jumping off a bridge.

The truth is a hunter.

The willfully ignorant cannot be woke. Inspired by the Navajo proverb: "You can't wake a person who is pretending to be asleep." 📷 Navajo Windtalkers

The party of swindlers and thieves is putting forward its chief swindler and its chief thief for the presidency. We must vote against him, struggle against him. Alexei Navalny

Genesis Belanger You Never Know What You're Gonna Get Stoneware & Porcelain 2020

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 "IT WAS A PLEASURE TO BURN. It was a special pleasure to see things eaten, to see things blackened and changed. With the brass nozzle in his fists, with this great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world..." #HowBooksBegin

Juan Ramón Jiménez Spanish poet "If they give you ruled paper, write the other way." Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 famously opens with this quote.

Joyce Carol Oates Jack of Spades "Out of the air, the ax. Somehow there was an ax and it rose and fell in a wild swath aimed at my head..." #HowBooksBegin

“Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a hammer with which to shape it.” ― Bertolt Brecht David Thomas 1953-2025 🎈 youtu.be/VelS-YCtHV4?...

Andreas Breunig Protest Miller-Urey Paintings No. 42, 2024 Acrylic, oil, charcoal, and graphite on canvas www.miergallery.com/exhibitions/...