"Art is not a mirror held up to reality but a
hammer with which to shape it."
hammer with which to shape it."
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"There are men who struggle for a day and they
are good. There are men who struggle for a year
and they are better. There are men who struggle
many years, and they are better still. But there are
those who struggle all their lives: These are the
indispensable ones."
are good. There are men who struggle for a year
and they are better. There are men who struggle
many years, and they are better still. But there are
those who struggle all their lives: These are the
indispensable ones."
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there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say, stay in there, I'm not going
to let anybody see
you.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I pour whiskey on him and inhale
cigarette smoke
and the whores and the bartenders
and the grocery clerks
never know that
he's
in there.
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too tough for him,
I say,
stay down, do you want to mess
me up?
you want to screw up the
works?
you want to blow my book sales in
Europe?
there's a bluebird in my heart that
wants to get out
but I'm too clever, I only let him out
at night sometimes
when everybody's asleep.
I say, I know that you're there,
so don't be
sad.
then I put him back,
but he's singing a little
in there, I haven't quite let him
die
and we sleep together like
that
with our
secret pact
and it's nice enough to
make a man
weep, but I don't
weep, do
you?
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Björk
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Born : 21 November, 1965
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is an iconic singer‑songwriter, producer, and actress known for her fearless creativity, genre-defying music, and environmental activism.
Released her first album at age 11—a collection of folk and pop covers.
Björk starred in Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000), a tragic musical drama for which she won the Best Actress Award at Cannes and received a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. Despite acclaim, the experience was emotionally taxing, and she has since focused more on music and performance art.
_______
Born : 21 November, 1965
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is an iconic singer‑songwriter, producer, and actress known for her fearless creativity, genre-defying music, and environmental activism.
Released her first album at age 11—a collection of folk and pop covers.
Björk starred in Lars von Trier’s Dancer in the Dark (2000), a tragic musical drama for which she won the Best Actress Award at Cannes and received a Golden Globe and Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song. Despite acclaim, the experience was emotionally taxing, and she has since focused more on music and performance art.
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"I realized I could have an easy life…just have a glass of Cognac and good books and two jobs and do my songs in the evening, but I would be such a consumer, taking it all in and not giving anything back. I thought: Ok…if I don’t go on a mission now and make some sacrifices, as these people did, I will never forgive myself."
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"I think it is an interesting feeling when you get older and you realize there is no 'they,' there’s no government or elders, there’s no one you can point at and blame. You’ve actually got to become that person."
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"You can kill people with sound...and if you can kill, maybe there is the sound that is the opposite of killing?"
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"After tragedies one has to invent a new world, knit it or embroider, make it up...you have to imagine something that doesn't exist and dig a cave into the future and demand
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"We go through changes roughly every three years, sometimes seven, where our colour palette changes and how we feel changes…the aroma or the textures…the lightness or darkness around us shifts."
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"Last year was the year I lost my patience with people who deal with life like it is not precious."
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"In my most natural state, I'll be introverted for say, six days in a row, and then on the seventh day I'll become very extroverted... Then I'll have to go back inside myself... It's something I can't really control. It's a bit like the ocean and the tides."
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September approaching…I feel I owe myself a brief respite of leisure and no rushing around. I can’t face the dead reality. I want rainy days, lanterns and a hundred moons twining in dark leaves, music spilling out and echoing yet inside my head.
Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath
Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath
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james dean died 70 years ago today.
“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
“Dream as if you will live forever; Live as if you will die today.”
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“If a man can bridge the gap between life and death,if he can live after he's died, then maybe he was a great man. Immortality is the only true success.”
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died at the age of 24.
“Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.”
“Live fast, die young, leave a good looking corpse.”
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