April 2012
57 posts
“The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.”
—Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
“but writing down the words
alters what I want to remember
that which had no words
was a living breathing image
so now I have two versions of the same
today I can superimpose them
but tomorrow when I’m gone
only the words are left
signs evoking something
that no eye sees any more” —Remco Campert, from “Memo” (translated by Donald Gardner)
alters what I want to remember
that which had no words
was a living breathing image
so now I have two versions of the same
today I can superimpose them
but tomorrow when I’m gone
only the words are left
signs evoking something
that no eye sees any more” —Remco Campert, from “Memo” (translated by Donald Gardner)
“If you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.”
—Photographer, Aaron Siskind (via artpropelled)
“Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life … Life holds the mirror up to Art, and either reproduces some strange type imagined by a painter or sculptor, or realises in fact what has been dreamed in fiction… . For what is Nature? Nature is no great mother who has borne us. She is our creation. It is in our brain that she quickens to life. Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that have influenced us… .”
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Oscar Wilde, ‘The Decay of Lying: An Observation’, 1889
Life doesn’t imitate art, it imitates bad television. Woody Allen
(via ratak-monodosico)
Lust For Lascaux: “The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem... →
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“The unsaid, for me, exerts great power: often I wish an entire poem could be made in this vocabulary. It is analogous to the unseen; for example, to the power of ruins, to works of art either damaged or incomplete. Such works inevitably allude to larger contexts; they haunt because they are not…
“Adam was but human—this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple’s sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent.”
—Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson (via libraryland)
