Tag Archives: Proust

Why all artists should drink coffee

I’ve always suspected that coffee fired my imagination. Today I found out that science and history backs up my suspicions. History has it that coffee was discovered in Ethiopia over a thousand years ago by a poetic goat-herder called Kaldi … Continue reading

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Creative people like to do things those non-creative people don’t do

Today I read this. It caught my attention among the hundreds of daily facebook posts I see because of course I regard myself as a creative person. I needed to know: do I do any of the 18 things listed … Continue reading

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The art of suffering

At the moment I am re-reading How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton, my favourite living popular philosopher (if you have can popular science you can have popular philosophy). In this book, de Botton talks about Proust’s … Continue reading

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More on interesting art…

I realised last night that I was using two words interchangeably to describe the sort of art that I think sells: ‘interesting’ and ‘pretty’. I think there is an important difference between the two which I now need to make. … Continue reading

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