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 »
Francis Bacon, Second Version of Triptych (Detail), 1944 I wanted to paint the scream more than the horror. La carne… lo spirito… dipingere il grido, anziché l’orrore. Go back to album – Quotes
Philippe Auguste Jeanron, The Little Patriots, 1830 Almost nothing great has ever been done in the world except by the genius and firmness of a single man combating the prejudices of the multitude. Non si è mai fatto nulla di grande nel mondo senza il genio e la fermezza di un uomo il quale, solo, …
Andrey Remnev, The Unplaiting of the Hair, 1997 Is it true, prince, that you once declared that “beauty would save the world”? Great Heaven! The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! (…) What kind of beauty will save the world? E’ vero, Principe, che una volta avete detto che il mondo …
Fyodor Dostoevsky – La bellezza salverà il mondo / Beauty will save the world Read More »
Giorgione, The Three Philosophers, c. 1506 Everything exists; nothing exists. Either formula affords a like serenity. The man of anxiety, to his misfortune, remains between them, trembling and perplexed, forever at the mercy of a nuance, incapable of gaining a foothold in the security of being or in the absence of being. Tutto è; niente …
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