Posts tagged ‘Lunes’
Feb 11
El Niño
Jan 27
“I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango” —Christopher Columbus
No visa
No baggage to drag
Travel light
For centuries, Cuba’s greatest resource has been its people —Pico Iyer
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Dec 6
“I had to go to France to appreciate Iowa.” —Grant Wood
Backstory
Gothic revival
A paint job
All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow—Grant Wood
Nov 30
“Instead of stubbornly attempting to use surrealism for purposes of subversion, it is necessary to try to make of surrealism something as solid, complete and classic as the works of museums”—Salvador Dali
Dream vision
Inverts perception
Surreally
One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams—Salvador Dali
Nov 20
“Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting that speaks”—Plutarch
What sense peers
Into the darkness
Hears a light
Why should poetry have to make sense?—Charlie Chaplin
Nov 15
“In art, the obvious is a sin”—Edward Dmytryk
For our sins
Divine comedy
Is no joke
Writing saved me from the sin and inconvenience of violence—Alice Walker
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Oct 29
“There’s no such thing as writer’s block. That was invented by people in California who couldn’t write”—Terry Pratchett
I write like I talk and I don’t get talker’s block—Seth Godin
Idle pen
Or empty ink well
Which came first
Sep 27
“It is now life and not art that requires the willing suspension of disbelief.” —Lionel Trilling
Artists are low key astronauts. Instead of going to the moon, they sit back in their studio and make the moon
—Michael Bassey Johnson
Sep 17
“You can tell a more over-the-top incredible story if you use a nonfiction form.” —Chuck Palahniuk
All tales now wending
This one begins
In the alternate endings
Refreshed by rain
A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order
—Jean-Luc Godard
“It is the difficult horses that have the most to give you.” —Lendon Gray
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