April 2011
“ “Human consciousness - as expressed in speech and images, in self-definition...”
– Michel Foucault cited in Timothy Leary, Michael Horowitz, Chaos & Cyber Culture, Ronin Pub, 1994, p. 65.
“I don’t care what anybody says about me as long as it isn’t true.”
– Truman Capote
Art: Be Shocking
Art: Be Shocking - TIME, Oct. 31, 1949
Marcel Duchamp is a keen old (62) knife-blade of a man whose greatest interest now is chess. Once upon a time (before World War I) he stood among the wildest and wittiest cutups of modern art. His blurred, brown vision of a Nude Descending a Staircase step by step in a flood of toppling geometrical shapes was a revelation as well as a shock to his...
Mozart - Fantasia in D Minor KV397
“It is the bruises that allow us to recognize the value of the discovery.”
– Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
“We are adhering to life now with our last muscle - the heart.”
– Djuna Barnes
“I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of...”
– Saul Bellow
http://crashinglybeautiful.tumblr.com/
“Bells and stones have voices, but unless they are struck, they will not sound.”
—Chuang Tzu
By way of the Tao of Photography
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“The glorious shitshow of the 20th century has barely started, and you’re already...”
– Lazy Self-Indulgent Book Reviews, on German Expressionism in the first part of last century. There’s more. It’s great.
