“Thought: To think you can change your life by changing its outward conditions is just like thinking, as I did as a boy, that by sitting on a stick and taking hold of it at both ends I could lift myself up.”
Leo Tolstoy
more infosource: January 15, 1891 entry, in Tolstoy’s Diaries Volume 1, 1847–1894, trans. by R. F. Christian (London: Faber and Faber, 2010), 300.
category: change, illusion, thought, transformation
medium: Journal
“I remember a backdrop of a brick wall I painted for a play. I painted each red brick in by hand. Afterwards it occurred to me that I could have just painted the whole thing red and put in the white lines.”
Joe Brainard
more infosource: I Remember (New York: Granary Books, 2001), 28.
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category: illusion, memory, painting, school of life
medium: Memoir
illusion