Joan Mirò, The Tilled Field, 1923 It slept in you like a dry fibroma, like a thin tapeworm, a dream, now it crushes the gravel, now it shakes its own shadow; now it screeches, swallows, urinates, having always waited for the taste of camomile, the rabbit’s temperature, the noise of the hail, the shape of …
Egon Schiele, Mother and Child, 1908 Grab this mercury, this cold gum, this honey, this sphere of arid glass; carefully measure our baby’s head and not twisting his imperceptible foot now; in your nipple you must now change an extended continent of lamps, the obsessive breathing of critical gardens, the belly’s lazy whales, nettles and …
Edoardo Sanguineti – Afferra questo mercurio / Grab this mercury Read More »
Antonio Canova, The Dance Of The Sons Of Alcinous, 1790 In the temple of the muses were no classes, nations or races; only humanity with its dream of beauty and joy. Nel tempio delle muse non c’erano classi, nazioni o razze, ma soltanto l’umanità con il suo sogno di bellezza e di gioia. Go back …
Adolf Hirémy-Hirschl, Ahasuerus at the End of the World, c. 1900 Non coerceri a maximo, contineri tamen a minimo divinum est. *** To suffer no restriction from anything however great, and yet to be contained in the tiniest of things, that is divine. *** Non esser costretto da ciò che è più grande, essere contenuto …
Frida Kahlo, Self portrait with a monkey, 1938 I stopped counting the times when, arrived at the second line, I deleted and rewritten everything again. I was looking for a start to effect, something poetic and true at the same time, something great, but in the eye. I could not do it. Then I understood, …
Frida Kahlo – Di struggente bellezza / Of poignant beauty Read More »
Christian Vincent, Waterfall, 2010 But this race we must suppose to have no other goal, nor other garland, but being foremost, and in it:To endeavour, is appetite.To be remiss, is sensuality.To consider them behind, is glory.To consider them before, is humility.To lose ground with looking back, vain glory.To be holden, hatred.To turn back, repentance.To be …
Thomas Hobbes – The Elements of Law, Natural and Politic Read More »
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