Le graphisme est un humanisme

The secret of success is concentrating interest in life, interest in sports and good times, interest in your studies, interest in your fellow students, interest in the small things of nature, insects, birds, flowers, leaves, etc. In other words to be fully awake to everything about you & the more you learn the more you can appreciate & get a full measure of joy & happiness out of life. I do not think a young fellow should be too serious, he should be full of the Dickens some times to create a balance.

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LeRoy Pollock writes a letter to his son, Jackson Pollock, then sixteen. From Lapham’s Quarterly (via viafrank)

I’ve always been afraid of spreading myself too thin, of hanging on too much to this idea of a “generalist.” But this quote reminds me I’m doing alright. 

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