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TOLSTOY ~ ON MUSIC

in The Melody of Art/The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Music is the shorthand of emotion.”

Leo Tolstoy

JEAN COCTEAU ~ ON THE MYSTERIOUS RESEMBLANCE OF MUSIC

in The Melody of Art by

“All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.”

Jean Cocteau

PABLO PICASSO ~ ON CHAGALL

in Passion Of Art by

“When Chagall paints, you do not know if he is asleep or awake. Somewhere or other inside his head there must be an angel”

-Pablo Picasso, 1961

CHAGALL ~ ON ULTIMATE LOVE

in Just a bit of everything and everyone.../Passion Of Art by

“Her pale coloring, her eyes, how big and round and black they are! They are my eyes, my soul…I know this is she, my wife”

-Marc Chagall, in My Life, on meeting Bella Rosenfeld for the first time

DALI ~ ON CONFUSION

in Just a bit of everything and everyone.../Passion Of Art by

“You have to systematically create confusion,
it sets creativity free. Everything that is
contradictory creates life.”
Salvador Dali

JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ THE SUM

in A Mysterious Encounter with the Moon/Poetry of Art by

The silent friendliness of the moon

(misquoting Virgil) accompanies you

since that one night or evening lost

in time now, on which your restless

eyes first deciphered her forever

in a garden or patio turned to dust.

Forever? I know someone, someday

will be able to tell you truthfully:

‘You’ll never see the bright moon again,

You’ve now achieved the unalterable

sum of moments granted you by fate.

Useless to open every window

in the world. Too late. You’ll not find her.’

We live discovering and forgetting

that sweet familiarity of the night.

Take a long look. It might be the last.

Jorge Luis Borges

Painting is “Moon light over the Seine”
Henry Pether (1828-1865)

JULIO CORTAZAR ~ ON DISTRACTION

in Art & the Unconscious Mind/The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.”
Julio Cortazar – Around the Day in Eighty WorLds

FRANZ VON STUCK ~ WATER AND FIRE

in Art Nouveau by

Franz van stuck (February 24, 1863 – August 30, 1928) was a German symbolist/Art Nouveau painter, sculptor, engraver, and architect.
This painting is part of a tryptich Air, water and Fire. This part is called Water and Fire, 1913.

ROMAIN GARY ~ THE INSPIRATION OF LITERATURE

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Reality is not an inspiration for literature. At its best, literature is an inspiration for reality” 1956
Romain Gary, 1914 -1980

OCTAVIO PAZ ~ IS MODERN THINKING WIDE AWAKE?

in The words that make sense... brilliant writings by writers... by

“Modern man likes to pretend that his thinking is wide-awake. But this wide-awake thinking has led us into the mazes of a nightmare in which the torture chambers are endlessly repeated in the mirrors of reason.”

Octavio Paz
The labyrinth of Solitude

Mexican writer 1914-1998
Nobel Prize for literature in 1990

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