Tag: artist
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There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face
I have to admit that I often approach Art much like I approach a forest: full of beauty as a whole, and yet less impressive if I am asked to dissect it too closely. But I have to admit that some paintings attract me: they are more than just token forests; some contain whole neighbourhoods…
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The art of our necessities is strange
Do you ever miss things you thought you never would? Or details so obvious that when they are pointed out suddenly surface like children playing hide-and-seek? A bus that just left the corner where you usually catch it; the snack you often grab from the fridge when you’re feeling a little peckish but didn’t buy…
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
Dialetheia -now there’s a word I haven’t heard before. It means a statement that is both true and false at the same time: a true statement whose negation is also true. I like things like that. It’s of the sort that used to intrigue us many a night in the university dorms of my youth…