Studio Friday: Quotes

This week's topic for Friday February 23rd suggested by Robyn: QUOTED!

"Quotes are so inspiring. They give us comfort in rough times or the push we need to overcome our obstacles or fears. They enlighten us and give clarity and "A-ha's". Some we keep around for a life time and let them guide us, others we forget about. We work with them maybe or pass them on to others."
~ Robyn

I have to admit to not really being a great one for quotes, but for a long while i've had Jack Kerouac's Belief and Technique for modern prose typed up on a sheet of paper to look at from time to time. I remember including some of these rules in work that I was making over 15 years ago, whilst some of them mean nothing to me, there are a few that will continue to stick with me.

• Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for yr own joy
  
• Submissive to everything, open, listening
  
• Try never get drunk outside yr own house
  
• Be in love with yr life
  
• Something that you feel will find its own form
  
• Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind
  
• Blow as deep as you want to blow
  
• Write what you want bottomless from bottom of mind
  
• The unspeakable visions of the individual
  
• No time for poetry but exactly what is
  
• Visionary tics shivering in the chest
  
• In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you
  
• Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition
  
• Like Proust be an old teahead of time
  
• Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog
  
• The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye
  
• Write in recollection and amazement for yourself
  
• Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea
  
• Accept loss forever
  
• Believe in the holy contour of life
  
• Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind
  
• Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better
  
• Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning
  
• No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge
  
• Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it
  
• Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form
  
• In Praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness
  
• Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better
  
• You're a Genius all the time
  
• Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven
  
  Jack Kerouac "Belief & Technique For Modern Prose: List of Essentials" from a 1958 letter to Don Allen, in Heaven & Other Poems, copyright © 1958, 1977, 1983. Grey Fox Press.
  

More quoted inspiration can be found here