Posts tagged ‘Contemporary Art’
Apr 5
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The quotations in this post may be attributed to immortal names. But on the Johns Hopkins University site and others from which they are sourced, they are unattributed.
Mar 10
“If it’s the right chair, it doesn’t take too long to get comfortable in it.” —Robert De Niro
Sitting still
Does the catbird seat
Make a lap
If a dog jumps into your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer. —Alfred North Whitehead
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Feb 26
“The truth is, I need 10 lifetimes to scratch the surface of the things I’d love to do.” —Bear Grylls
A star shines
Behind a curtained
Looking glass
If you think about the concept of reincarnation, it’s essentially uploading yourself and your spirit into a new form, a new hard drive as it were. —Conor Oberst
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Feb 18
“A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.” —J. R. R. Tolkien
If it’s Greek
Goddesses ye seek
Eureka!
‘In my box,’ the old man said, ‘that I carry about with me, I’ve other delights besides my show.’ —John Masefield
Jan 25
“The picture alone, without the written word, leaves half the story untold.” –James Lafferty
Off the wall
In my frame of mind
Hang haiku
The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express. —Francis Bacon
Jan 14
“Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.” –Frank Darabont
Wall painting
With paper rollers
Show and tell
The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls —Paul Simon
Jan 1
“Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.” –Thomas Mann
We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh. —Friedrich Nietzsche
Dec 24
“Laughing without laughing is only possible with the laughing of the eyes!” –Anon.
Merry woes
Thro’ soul’s windows show
Go Ho-Ho!
In this world, a good time to laugh is any time you can. —Linda Ellerbee
Dec 6
“Humans are amphibians…half spirit and half animal…as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.” –C.S. Lewis
The aim of this art is to illuminate “amphibian” humanity’s higher nature, by bringing timeless moments of the eternal world to light, via abstract expressions of emotions that strike an infinite ring of truth outside of time, like the ring around the sound of water a frog jumps in. The quotes may help inhabitants of time make sense of these intimations of im(art)ality now.
Immortality through art means moving away from time. To achieve a moment of eternity. —Bassam AL-Radaideh
Oct 24
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