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Painting is easy when you don't know how, but very difficult when you do. ~Edgar Degas It is a mistake for a sculptor or a painter to speak or write very often about his job. It releases tension needed for his work. ~Henry Moore An artist is someone who produces things that people don't need to have but that he - for some reason - thinks it would be a good idea to give them. ~Andy Warhol The world today doesn't make sense, so why should I paint pictures that do? ~Pablo Picasso Painting is just another way of keeping a diary. ~Pablo Picasso A man paints with his brains and not with his hands. ~Michelangelo Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen. ~Leonardo da Vinci I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things. ~Henri Matisse The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. ~Aristotle The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep. ~Paul Strand music+image |
Showing posts with label Mexico City Views. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mexico City Views. Show all posts
Monday, September 13, 2010
Art Lesson
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Gleam in someone's lake
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| Chapultepec Lake |
“A warrior acts as if he knows what he is doing, when in effect he knows nothing.”
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.”
“An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself. A warrior likes, that’s all. He likes whatever or whomever he wants, for the hell of it.”
“Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy and vain. To be a warrior one needs to be light and fluid.”
“A warrior considers himself already dead, so there is nothing to lose. The worst has already happened to him, therefore he’s clear and calm; judging him by his acts or by his words, one would never suspect that he has witnessed everything.”
“There’s no emptiness in the life of a warrior. Everything is filled to the brim. Everything is filled to the brim, and everything is equal.”
“All of us, whether or not we are warriors, have a cubic centimeter of chance that pops out in front of our eyes from time to time. The difference between the average person and a warrior is that the warrior is aware of this and stays alert, deliberately waiting, so that when this cubic centimeter of chance pops out, it is picked up.”
“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”
“For a warrior, to be inaccessible means that he touches the world around him sparingly. And above all, he deliberately avoids exhausting himself and others. He doesn’t use and squeeze people until they have shriveled to nothing, especially the people he loves.”
“My laughter … is real, but it is also controlled folly because it is useless; it changes nothing and yet I still choose to do it. … I am happy because I choose to look at things that make me happy…”
“The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue.”
“The world is a mystery. This, what you’re looking at, is not all there is to it. There is much more to the world, so much more, in fact, that it is endless. So when you’re trying to figure it out, all you’re really doing is trying to make the world familiar. You and I are right here, in the world that you call real, simply because we both know it.”
Carlos Castaneda
Monday, April 19, 2010
Sunday Afternoon
(Under construction)
Friday, April 16, 2010
Pixels
(Under construction)
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Enclosed Skies
(Under construction)
Friday, April 2, 2010
Street Performers
(Under construction)
Thursday, April 1, 2010
April Theme Day: Red (Simply)
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Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Fast Food Street Vendor
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010
At The Zoo
Sound the Flute!
Now it's mute.
Birds delight
Day and Night.
Nightingale
In the dale
William Blake
(Under construction)
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Classic
Ripley’s Believe It or Not! Museum
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Numbers
From sketches series.
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Styles
Que el verso sea como una llave
Que abra mil puertas.
Una hoja cae; algo pasa volando;
Cuanto miren los ojos creado sea,
Y el alma del oyente quede temblando.
Inventa mundos nuevos y cuida tu palabra;
El adjetivo, cuando no da vida, mata.
Estamos en el ciclo de los nervios.
El músculo cuelga,
Como recuerdo, en los museos;
Mas no por eso tenemos menos fuerza:
El vigor verdadero
Reside en la cabeza.
Por qué cantáis la rosa, ¡oh Poetas!
Hacedla florecer en el poema;
Sólo para nosotros
Viven todas las cosas bajo el Sol.
El Poeta es un pequeño Dios.
Vicente Huidobro. De El espejo de Agua, 1916.
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Thursday, March 4, 2010
Moment of Light
~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
When you possess light within, you see it externally.
~Anaïs Nin
An age is called "dark," not because the light fails to shine but because people refuse to see it.
~James Michener
Wine is sunlight, held together by water.
~Galileo
(Under construction)
Monday, March 1, 2010
March 2010 Theme Day: Passageway
We live at the edge of the miraculous.
Henry Miller
(Under construction)
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Towers
World Trade Center Mexico (1994)
Latin American Tower (1956)
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New York City and Washington series continue in Sketches of Cities.
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Gracias por su visita. / Thanks for visiting, please be sure that I read each and every one of your kind comments and I appreciate them all. Stay tune.
Latin American Tower (1956)
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Friday, February 26, 2010
Organ Grinder
The organ grinder was a musical novelty street performer of the 19th century and the early part of the 20th century, and refers to the operator of a street organ.
Period literature often represents the grinder as a gentleman of ill repute or as an unfortunate representative of the lower classes. Newspaper reporters would sometimes describe them cynically or jocularly as minor extortionists who were paid to keep silent, given the repetitious nature of the music. Later depictions would stress the romantic or picturesque aspects of the activity. Whereas some organ grinders were itinerants or vagabonds, many were recent immigrants who chose to be street performers in order to support their families. Those who actually owned their barrel organs were more likely to take care of them and pursue the "profession" more seriously. A few organ grinders still remain, perhaps most famously Joe Bush in the United States.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Menus
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Monday, February 15, 2010
Balloons
(Under construction)
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Yesternow
Rene Magritte
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Friday, February 12, 2010
Trio
(Under construction)
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