“The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.”
– Jacob Burckhardt, Swiss, historian
via “The essence of tyranny is the denial of complexity.” — Art of Quotation
The Life and Influence of Walter Benjamin — RhysTranter.com
Ian Penman writes on the tragic life and enduring influence of the German literary critic …
via The Life and Influence of Walter Benjamin — RhysTranter.com
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not…” — Art of Quotation
“Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers, everything around one, without trying to understand them?” – Pablo Picasso, Spanish, painter, sculptor, printmaker, draftsman
via “Everyone wants to understand art. Why not…” — Art of Quotation
On Blaise Cendrars
‘I am a kind Brahman in reverse who contemplates himself in agitation’
– Blaise Cendrars in Monique Chefdor’s, Introduction. Blaise Cendrars: A «symphonie contrastante.»
Guy de Maupassant — The Vale of Soul-Making
Words dazzle and deceive because they are mimed by the face. But black words on a white page are the soul laid bare. ― Guy de Maupassant
Georges Perec – On Knowing the World
What can we know of the world? What quantity of space can our eyes hope to take in between our birth and our death? How many square centimeters of planet earth will the soles of our shoes have touched?
– Georges Perec in Species of Spaces and Other Pieces
William S. Burroughs – On The Third Mind
No two minds ever come together without, thereby, creating a third, invisible force which may be likened to a third mind…
– William S. Burroughs on The Third Mind
Francis Bacon
Nearly all reality is pain.
– From an Interview with Melwyn Bragg for The South Bank Show.
[Quotation taken from my Writer’s Notebooks 2015]
William S. Burroughs – On Writing
No trouble, no story, no book, no film, no painting …
Francis Bacon
Chaos for me breeds images.
– From an Interview with Melwyn Bragg for The South Bank Show.
[Quotation taken from my Writer’s Notebooks 2015]
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