November 2009
27 posts
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I...”
– Walt Whitman, excerpt from “Song of Myself”
“You need a high degree of corruption or a very big heart to love absolutely...”
– Gustave Flaubert
what is it about emptiness that makes you want to fall into it?
The best and first victory is to conquer self. -Plato
“What I really love about Coca Cola is that the President of the U.S. can’t get a better Coke than the bum on the street.” - Andy Warhol
You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.
-Milan Kundera
The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less.
-Socrates
do not adjust your mind, there is fault in reality
Beauty itself is but the sensible image of the infinite.
— George Bancroft
I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
“When I consider the short duration of my life, swallowed up in the eternity before and after, and the little space I fill, and even can see, engulfed in the infinite immensity of space of which I am ignorant, and which knows me not, I am frightened, and am astonished at being here rather than there, why now rather than then.”
-Blaise Pascal
Autistic Artist Draws the Manhattan Skyline from Memory - http://bit.ly/1vwP7U
