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OCTAVIO PAZ ~ IS MODERN THINKING WIDE AWAKE?

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“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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PLATO ~ MUSIC AS A MORAL LAW

in Just a bit of everything and everyone.../The Melody of Art by

“Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything. ”
Plato

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

BENJAMIN BRITTEN ~ THE CRUEL BEAUTY OF MUSIC

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“It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.”

Benjamin Britten

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

REBECCA WEST ~ THE ART OF SKEPTICISM

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“Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person,  only … between different parts of a person’s mind.”

Rebecca West, “The Art of Skepticism,” 1952

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GEORGIA O’KEEFFE ~ ON INDIVIDUALITY

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

“I know now that most people are so closely concerned
with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I
can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.”
Georgia O’Keeffe

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GEORGIA O'KEEFFE ~ ON INDIVIDUALITY

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

“I know now that most people are so closely concerned
with themselves that they are not aware of their own individuality, I
can see myself, and it has helped me to say what I want to say in paint.”
Georgia O’Keeffe

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BILLIE HOLIDAY ~ ENOUGH IS ENOUGH

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Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what’s more than enough.

Billie Holiday

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

FRANCIS BACON ~ A SCREAM

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“We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream, and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death.”
Francis Bacon

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PLATO ~ ON BEING A POET

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‘Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.”
Plato

The image is from a classical sculpture of Plato found on Crete.

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Still life by Giorgio Morandi

THE SURREALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI

THE SURREALITY/REALITY OF GIORGIO MORANDI. Giorgio Morandi (1890 -1964) was an Italian painter and printmaker. “There is nothing more surreal,

PICASSO ~ ART IS A LIE

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

“We all know that Art is not truth. Art is a lie that
makes us realize the truth, at least the truth that is given to us to
understand.”
Picasso

Picasso with his children Paloma and Claude, 1953

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