Beauty is a world betrayed…

"When she told her French friends about it, they were amazed. "You mean you don't want to fight the occupation of your country?" She would have liked to tell them that behind Communism, Fascism, behind all occupations and invasions lurks a more basic, pervasive evil and that the image of that evil was a parade of people marching by with raised fists and shouting identical syllables in unison. But she ...

 
continue... 15 November 2010 // Literature
 
Edgar Degas – Little Dancer of Fourteen Years
 
continue... 14 November 2010 // Art
 

Sane Existence

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills, holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against ...

 
continue... 14 November 2010 // Books
 

Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka

One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a horrible vermin.  He lay on his armour-like back, and if he lifted his head a little he could see his brown belly, slightly domed and divided by arches into stiff sections.  The bedding was hardly able to cover it and seemed ready to slide off any moment.  His many legs, pitifully thin ...

 
continue... 14 November 2010 // Literature
 
THE MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM (1909)

THE MANIFESTO OF FUTURISM (1909)

We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit of energy and fearlessness.
Courage, audacity, and revolt will be essential elements of our poetry.
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continue... 12 November 2010 // Art, Poetry
 
Simplicity = Freedom

Simplicity = Freedom

"For me to gain freedom is to gain simplicity..." Joan Miró

Yes, it took me only a moment to draw this line with my brush. ...

 
continue... 11 November 2010 // Art
 
Perpetual Time

Perpetual Time

'You are the sun. The sun doesn't move, this is what it does. You are the Earth. The Earth is here for a start, and ...

 
continue... 08 November 2010 // Movies
 
Psychotic art

Psychotic art

Term used to refer to the artistic productions of people who suffer from chronic major psychoses, such as schizophrenia or manic depression. These untrained artists ...

 
continue... 04 November 2010 // Art