A collection of writings about place space writing and art …
“The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want” F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “The Complete Works of F. Scott Fitzgerald: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry, Articles, Letters, Plays & Screenplays: From the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender […]
We were ruinous together, she thinks. But how else can we live, these days, except in the midst of ruin? – Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
“to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude” Susan Sontag, writer
via “to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude” — Art of Quotation
So therefore I dedicate myself to myself, to my art, my sleep, my dreams, my labors, my suffrances, my loneliness, my unique madness, my endless absorption and hunger—because I cannot dedicate myself to any fellow being. — Jack Kerouac
The story is not in the words; it’s in the struggle. — Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy. (Penguin Classics; Reissue edition, March 28, 2006) Originally published 1987.
In order to write I must place myself into the void. In this void is where I exist intuitively. But it’s a terribly dangerous void: it’s where I wring out blood. I’m a writer who fears the snares of words: the words I say hide others—which? maybe I’ll say them. Writing is a stone cast […]
Pour être grand, sois entier : rien En toi n’exagère ou n’exclus. Sois tout en chaque chose. Mets tout ce que tu es Dans le plus petit de tes actes. Ainsi en chaque lac brille la lune entière Pour la raison qu’elle vit haut. * Para ser grande, sê inteiro: nada Para ser grande, sê […]
via Fernando Pessoa – Pour être grand, sois entier… — BEAUTY WILL SAVE THE WORLD
“When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.” ― Robert Frank, photographer (photo “London Street 1951” by Robert Frank)
“A new social type was being created by the apartment building, a cool, unemotional personality impervious to the psychological pressures of high-rise life, with minimal needs for privacy, who thrived like an advanced species of machine in the neutral atmosphere. This was the sort of resident who was content to do nothing but sit in […]
“Art is restoration: the idea is to repair the damages that are inflicted in life, to make something that is fragmented – which is what fear and anxiety do to a person – into something whole.”
– Louise Bourgeois. French, American, sculptor, installation artist
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