February 2010
194 posts
January 2010
75 posts
“The duende… Where is the duende? Through the empty arch comes a wind, a...”
– Frederico Garcia Lorca, excerpt from “In Search of Duende,” 1955
you know who you are...
into-thin-air:
i wish you could get better. all of you. i only got better by confronting my friend and realizing i couldn’t help her if i didn’t get myself together first. she’s in the hospital and here i am, trying to reach out to whoever will listen.
i hope my followers who understand what i’m saying will take a step closer to recovering, however small that may be. i don’t want to preach,...
“I am for art that is political-erotical-mystical, that does something other than...”
– Excerpts from Documents from The Store (1929) by Claes Oldenburg
“He looked around him as if seeing the world for the first time. The world was...”
– excerpt from Siddhartha by Herman Hesse (via thecapsizingsun) (via americansatori) (via crashinglybeautiful)
One of my favorite books.
“The consciousness of the personal and spontaneous in the painting and sculpture...”
– Meyer Schapiro
Why I cannot stand Andy Warhol. My own work may not be in the same vein as abstract impressionism, but this I wholly stand by.
Mountain Man - Animal Tracks
“He should realize that the beauty of any one body is brother to the beauty of...”
– from the speech of Diotima
Plato, The Symposium
“He speaks. With many tears and sighs he feeds his soul on what is nothing but a...”
– Lines 658-9 of Virgil’s The Aeneid