If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.
آمل ألاّ انجب أبدا. إنها القسوة بعينها أن نأتي بروح أخرى إلى هذا العالم.
The small family living unit lacks space, Earth, other animals, seasons, natural temperatures, and so on. The pet is either sterilized or sexually isolated, extremely limited in his exercise, deprived...
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...
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...
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.
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...
To be naked is to be oneself.To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.
The precondition for thinking politically on a global scale is to see the unity of the unnecessary suffering taking place. *
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.
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...
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.
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.
الأشياء الصغيرة هي التي تخيفنا، و الأشياء الضخمة التي بإمكانها أن تقتل هي التي تمنحنا الشجاعة.
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 urge to destroy is also a creative urge. It is worth comparing this famous text of Bakunin’s with one of Picasso’s most famous remarks about his own art. ‘A painting’, he said, ‘is a sum of destru...
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.
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.
We have no word for this darkness. It is not night and it is not ignorance. From time to time we all cross this darkness, seeing everything: so much everything that we can distinguish nothing. You kno...