Literature · Reflection
BERNARD MALAMUD ~ ON WRITING
Those who write about life, reflect about life. you see in others who you are. Bernard Malamud
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Art · Reflection
AUBREY BEARDSLEY ~ DREAMS
“Dreams” 1894 by Aubrey Beardsley (1872 – 1898) “Poor Aubrey: I hope he will get all right. He brought a strangely new personality to English art, and was a master in his way of fantastic grace, and the charm of the unreal. His muse had moods of terrible laughter. Behind his grot
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Art · Reflection
JACKSON POLLOCK ~ THE UNCONSCIOUS
I’m very representational some of the time, and a little all of the time. But when you’re painting out of your unconscious, figures are bound to emerge. Jackson Pollock
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Art · Reflection
ART OF THE SUBCONSCIOUS ~ ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM
Abstract Expressionism was an American art movement in New York City from the mid-1940s to mid-1950s, and was the first specifically American Art movement to establish worldwide influence. It demonstrated the energy and creativity of America in the post-World War II years, and wa
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Art · Reflection
WILLEM DE KOONING ~ ON BEING AN ARTIST
“Whatever an artist’s personal feelings are, as soon as an artist fills a certain area on the canvas or circumscribes it, he becomes historical. He acts from or upon other artists.” Willem de Kooning
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Art · Reflection
PLATO ~ ON KNOWLEDGE
And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul. Plato
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Poetry · Reflection
IMPRESIONES (3) A BRIDGE TOO FAR BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK AND VICTOR M. ALONSO
A BRIDGE TOO FAR – BY MONIQUE LUCY WEBERINK AND VICTOR M. ALONSO NOCHE DE MARZO. Las aves cantan en la noche, La madrugada tierna Que escucha el pensamiento. Son mis sensaciones fraguadas En recuerdos distantes Y urdidas de presente. Es la fragancia intensa, Persistente, de una p
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Art · Reflection
ANAIS NIN ~ THE DREAM
“The dream was always running ahead of me. To catch up, to live for a moment in unison with it, that was the miracle.” Anais Nin
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Literature · Reflection
SCHOPENHAUER ~ ON LIFE AND DEATH
Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death. Arthur Schopenhauer
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Art · Reflection
SIGMUND FREUD ~ DREAMING DREAMING
We should remember that the fact that most people take but little interest in their dreams is conducive to the forgetting of dreams. Anyone who for some time applies himself to the investigation of dreams, and takes a special interest in them, usually dreams more during that peri
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Art · Reflection
KEES VAN DONGEN ~ TANGO OF THE ARCHANGEL
“I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can be together all the time.” Calvin and Klein Painting Kees Van Dongen [1877 – 1968] Tango or Tango of the Archangel
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FRANTISEK KUPKA ~ THE WAY OF SILENCE
“The Way of Silence” (1900-1903) by Frantisek Kupka (1871-1957) According to Audrey Wagtberg Hansen in her article “Cold Gods and Fatal Women. “The Many Faces of the Sphinx in the 19th Century”, Kupka’s Way of Silence was “inspired by the poem Dream-land by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-
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