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WILLEM DE KOONING ~ ON BEING AN ARTIST

in Passion Of Art by

“Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.”

Willem de Kooning

PLATO ~ ON KNOWLEDGE

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul.
Plato

ANAIS NIN ~ THE DREAM

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.”
Anais Nin

SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON LIFE AND DEATH

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

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur Schopenhauer

ANAIS NIN ~ ON LOVE

in Just a bit of everything and everyone... by

“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishing.”
Anais Nin

MATA HARI ~ THE DANCE

in The Melody of Art by

~ The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word. ~
Mata Hari

GUSTAV MAHLER ~ A SYMPHONY

in The Melody of Art by

“A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything.”
Gustav Mahler

KANDINSKY ~ ON ABSTRACT ART

in Art & the Unconscious Mind by

“Abstract art places a new world, which on the surface has nothing to do with ‘reality,’ next to the ‘real’ world.”

Wassily Kandinksy 1866-1944

FEDERICO GARCIA LORCA ~ THE POETRY OF SKYSCRAPERS

in Poetical Visions by

“There is nothing more poetic and terrible than the skyscrapers’ battle with the heavens that cover them. Snow, rain, and mist highlight, drench, or conceal the vast towers, but those towers, hostile to mystery and blind to any sort of play, shear off the rain’s tresses and shine their three thousand swords through the soft swan of the fog.”

Federico Garcia Lorca

JORGE LUIS BORGES ~ PARADISE IS A LIBRARY

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

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
Jorge Luis Borges

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