Spencer Williams
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Great artists in their own words Curating: @creativetruths_
Detroit, MI
Joined June 2022
Steven Spielberg was 60 when he finally discovered he had dyslexia — a missing puzzle piece that explained his entire life. Here's his story:
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Steven Spielberg didn't know he was dyslexic until he was 60...
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Nina Simone and James Baldwin photographed by Bernard Gotfryd in the 1965.
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Sade’s rarely given interviews, but in 1987 she explained how relationships fall apart...
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Jacob Elordi photographs his journey on the set of Frankenstein
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Charli XCX on The Velvet Underground and Nico — her definition of a hit record: https://t.co/tBNGa5KsnU
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Why Ray Bradbury called Halloween ‘better than Christmas’…
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Miles Davis's Creative Truth #1: Mistakes don't exist until you make the next one. Late in his career, Miles Davis often doodled during interviews to keep calm and entertained. During one particular interview, Miles was drawing and the interviewer asked: “When you make a wrong
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These quotes are from my copy of The Lords and The New Creatures. The Lords: Notes on Vision was originally limited to 100 copies, but this combined edition can still be found in libraries, used bookstores, and online.
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“The eye looks vulgar Inside its ugly shell. Come out in the open In all of your Brilliance...”
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“When play dies it becomes the Game.” “He dealt himself a hand. Turn stills of the past in unending permutations, shuffle and begin. Sort the images again. And sort them again. This game reveals germs of truth, and death.” “The world becomes an apparently infinite, yet possibly
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“Events take place beyond our knowledge or control. Our lives are lived for us. We can only try to enslave others.” “The idea of the 'Lords' is beginning to form in some minds. We should enlist them into bands of perceivers to tour the labyrinth during their mysterious nocturnal
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“The Lords appease us with images. They give us books, concerts, galleries, shows, cinemas. Especially the cinemas. Through art they confuse us and blind us to our enslavement. Art adorns our prison walls, keeps us silent and diverted and indifferent.” “The prisoners built their
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“Cinema is most totalitarian of the arts.” “Each film depends upon all the others and drives you on to others: Cinema was a novelty, a scientific toy, until a sufficient body of works had been amassed, enough to create an intermittent other world, a powerful, infinite mythology
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“A mood might overtake a people burdened by historical events or dying in a bad landscape. They seek deliverance from doom, death, dread. Seek possession, the visit of gods and powers, a rewinning of the life source from demon possessors. The cure is culled from ecstasy. Cure
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“There are no glass houses. The shades are drawn and ‘real’ life begins. Some activities are impossible in the open. And these secret events are the voyeur’s game.” “Camera, as all-seeing god, satisfies our longing for omniscience. To spy on others from this height and angle:
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“We are content with the ‘given’ in sensation’s quest. We have been metamorphosised from a mad body dancing on hillsides to a pair of eyes staring in the dark.” “The body exists for the sake of eyes; it becomes a dry stalk to support these two soft insatiable jewels.” “More or
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“Look where we worship.” “The cleavage of men into actor and spectators is the central fact of our time.”
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Jim Morrison's book from 1969 feels like it was written in 2025. Quotes I saved from this rare, privately printed book, The Lords: Notes on Vision:
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