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| I Photograph Evocations Not Objects |
| 11.23.04 (3:18 am) [edit] |
[1] It is impossible for me to see only what the eye takes in, for the surfaces are only symbols. The look of a wall or a window is a look into time and space. The wall carries its history, what we see is not of the moment alone. Windows are symbols. They are openings in.
[2] No thing is beautiful. But all things await the sensitive and imaginative mind that may be aroused to pleasurable emotion at sight of them. This is beauty.
- - Robert Henri, from his book, The Art Spirit [1960]
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| Why This Artist Photographs 'Old' Scenes |
| 11.21.04 (9:55 am) [edit] |
I believe I’m not mistaken when I look upon something that is scarcely half alive as romantic. The defective, the crumbled, the diseased; e.g., an ancient city wall. Whatever is useless yet mysteriously beautiful – that is romantic. I love to dream about such things, and, as I see it, dreaming about them is enough.
- - Swiss fiction author Robert Walser (1914).
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| Friday Song |
| 11.19.04 (9:33 pm) [edit] |
If you can find no impulse for joy within yourself, look at others. Go out among the people. See how well they know how to rejoice and give themselves up utterly to glad feelings. But hardly have you succeeded in forgetting yourself and enjoying the spectacle of others’ joys, when tireless Fate reappears and insinuates itself. But the others pay no heed. They do not even look around to see you standing there, lonely and depressed. Oh, how merry they are! And how fortunate, that all their feelings are direct and simple. Never say that all the world is sad. You have only yourself to blame. There are joys, strong though simple. Why not rejoice through the joys of others? One can live that way, after all.
- - Tchaikovsky, writing about the fourth movement of his Sixth Symphony.
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