Maituxi: abril 2008

these collages are in Chile... so I guess It´ll be long before I see you again . . .

FAVORITE QUOTES

". . . the first thing you might learn, in considering jokes, is that Marcel Duchamp´s urinal was one -- quite a good one first time around, corny by the time of Andy Warhol´s Brillo boxes and downright stupid today." Roger Scruton on Beauty.

"Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself" Coco Chanel

"You have cat to be kitten me right meow"

"For most of history, Anonymous was a woman" Virginia Woolf

"Quiero estar dentro de tu todo más oscuro" Frida Kahlo

"To be an artist you have to give up everything, including the desire to be a good artist" Jasper Johns

"One often meets his destiny on the road he takes to avoid it" Master Oogway

"All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know" Ernest Hemingway

"Don´t tell Ganesha how big your problems are, tell your problems how big your Ganesha is"

"Where I create, there I am true" Rainer Maria Rilke

"This too shall pass" found in Persian Sufi poetry

"The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation" Auguste Rodin

"Just as the language of art is silent, so it is the beauty of a painting that renders the spectator speechless, the uneasy silence of a man faced by a work of art is unlike any other silence" Lucian Freud

"You`ll never know why you exist, but you`ll always allow yourselves to be easily persuaded to take life seriously" Tristan Tzara

12.4.08

work in progress...