To be naked is to be oneself.To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
Capitalism survives by forcing the majority, whom it exploits, to define their interests as narrowly as possible.This was once achieved by extensive deprivation. Today in the developed countries it is...
سأقرأ بعض الأسطر من دون ترجمتها. ستسمعين السّر، وسيبقى السّر سرّاً.
To become bored with eating is to be bored with life.
The transcendental face of art is always a form of prayer.
The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing t...
Art is the provocation for talking about enigma and the search for sense in human life. One can do that by telling a story or writing about a fresco by Giotto or studying how a snail climbs up a wall.
At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate disaster. And this reminder liberates him from the mean fussing of perfectionism.
الأشياء الصغيرة هي التي تخيفنا، و الأشياء الضخمة التي بإمكانها أن تقتل هي التي تمنحنا الشجاعة.
Accept the unknown. There are no secondary characters. Each one is silhouetted against the sky. All have the same stature. Within a given story some simply occupy more space.
A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she...
Do you know the legend about cicadas? They say they are the souls of poets who cannot keep quiet because, when they were alive, they never wrote the poems they wanted to.
A man's death makes everything certain about him. Of course, secrets may die with him. And of course, a hundred years later somebody looking through some papers may discover a fact which throws a tota...
Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
لا يكتب أي شاعر أكثر من قصيدة واحدة. قصيدة تمتد مسافة العمر كله، وقد يظن أنه يكتب قصائد قصيرة مختلفة. لكن في الحقيقة إنها جميعاً أجزاءٌ من القصيدة الطويلة ذاتها.
What any true painting touches is an absence - an absence of which without the painting, we might be unaware. And that would be our loss.
The real question is: to whom does the meaning of the art of the past properly belong ? To those who can app|y it to their own lives, or to a cultural hierarchy of relic specialtsts?
If we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past.
Drawing is a form of probing. And the first generic impulse to draw derives from the human need to search, to plot points, to place things and to place oneself.
هناك فرق شاسع بين الأمل و التوقع . في البدء اعتقدتُ أن الفرقيكمن في المدة الزمنية , و أن الأمل ينتظر أمراً مازال بعيد المنالكنت مخطئة . التوقع ينتمي إلى الجسد و الأمل ينتمي إلى الروح هذا هو الفرق . يت...