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Art about Dreaming, Reality and the Unconscious Mind...

ALFRED KUBIN ~ MADNESS

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MADNESS

ALFRED KUBIN

“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free”
NIKOS KAZANTZAKIS

THOMAS MANN ~ ON LIFE

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“For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious.”
Thomas Mann (1875-1955)

GUSTAVE DORE ~ A MIDNIGHT DREARY

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“The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe; Plate 4
– A Midnight Dreary

Paul Gustave Dore

GUSTAVE DORE ~ THE TEMPEST

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Back into the Tempest”
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe

Paul Gustave Dore

RENE MAGRITTE ~ ON THE ART LITERATURE

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…all critical literature prowling around the world of art should be aware of its essential absurdity, which makes one think of a swarm of clumsy flies buzzing around a decomposing corpse.

Rene Magritte

Painting The Secret Double (Le double secret) 1927

ELIAS CANETTI ~ ON DREAMS

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LA CHIMARE ~ ODILON REDON

“All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.”

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti ( Bulgarian: Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905–14 August 1994) was a Bulgarian-born novelist and non-fiction writer of Sephardi-Jewish ancestry who wrote in German. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981.

SALVADOR DALI ~ ON DRUGS

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“I don’t do drugs. I am drugs. Take me, I am the drug; take me, I am hallucinogenic.”

Salvador Dali

MAN RAY ~ IMAGINATION

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“I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.”
Man Ray

LEON SPILLIEAERT ~ MAGICAL STAIRCASE

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Vertigo, Magic Staircase (1908) by Leon Spillieaert
Belgian artist 1881-1946

LEONORA CARRINGTON ~ THE RECITAL OF DREAMS

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the recital of dreams

You DO know that you are a dream don’t you?
Do you realize how completely alone the Divine Being is?
All that there is is only this Divine Being.
Our Beloved, our Self!
To hide from the Truth the Divine Beloved dreams that It is You!
And Me and All of US!!!
An infinately multiple personality
Look deeply inside of your self.
You will find only Me.
You and Me and Me and You!
But one of us is the other’s dream…
One of us must, in the end, die the death of a lie and the Other return to its aloneness.
But what good is this Truth?
Shall we not have pity on Our Self then and continue dreaming that We are You and I and I and You?
Let’s us live a little longer in this dream
Until we can no longer look into each other’s eyes, fool our selves and see another.
One day my dear mask, my poor victim, That shall crush in upon you and wash you helpless into an ocean you have long forgotten like a grain of sand.
Drowning, you will be forced to release yourself and return to Self.

Leonora Carrington

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