PSH (1967-2014)

"Be regular and orderly in your life, 

so that you may be violent and original in your work." 

-Gustave Flaubert-

Abundance

"Michael Bloomberg recently wrote in the Financial Times, great urban centres, like New York, London and Toronto, can’t outpace the rapidly growing cities of Asia or Latin America simply by offering lower costs, tax breaks or other subsidies. “For cities to have sustained success, they must compete for the grand prize: intellectual capital and talent,” he said. “I have long believed that talent attracts capital far more than capital attracts talent. The most creative individuals want to live in places that protect personal freedoms, prize diversity and offer an abundance of cultural opportunities.”  - Richard Florida

Inspiration & Work

“The advice I like to give young artists, or really anybody who'll listen to me, is not to wait around for inspiration. Inspiration is for amateurs; the rest of us just show up and get to work. If you wait around for the clouds to part and a bolt of lightning to strike you in the brain, you are not going to make an awful lot of work. All the best ideas come out of the process; they come out of the work itself. Things occur to you. If you're sitting around trying to dream up a great art idea, you can sit there a long time before anything happens. But if you just get to work, something will occur to you and something else will occur to you and something else that you reject will push you in another direction. Inspiration is absolutely unnecessary and somehow deceptive. You feel like you need this great idea before you can get down to work, and I find that's almost never the case.”
― Chuck Close

Calling More Of The Shots

“Young filmmakers who were born out of the digital revolution are incredible storytellers. 

They have so much more experience than I did at their age. They post their films on the Internet. 

They market them online and they know their audiences so well. 

It’s time they should be calling more of the shots.”

- Niv Fichman

Any Time

"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. 

A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."

- Mark Twain -

Our Finest Moments

"Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping… waiting… and though unwanted… unbidden… it will stir… open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us… guides us… passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love… the clarity of hatred… and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we’d know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we’d be truly dead" 

- Joss Whedon

Real Architects

“Artists to my mind are the real architects of change, 

and not the political legislators who implement change after the fact.” 

― William S. Burroughs ―