Thoughts on { Color | Henri Matisse,1869-1954
Henri Matisse, Le bonheur de vivre (The Joy of Life), 1905-6 "Color was not given to us in order that...
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Thoughts on { Football | Dmitri Shostakovich / Elbert Hubbard / George Orwell / Eduardo Galeano / J.D. Salinger / Nick Hornby / Albert Camus
Pablo Picasso, Football, 1961 “Football is the ballet of the masses.” Dmitri Shostakovich “Football: A sport that bears the same...
Thoughts on { Violence | Edward W. Said / Primo Levi / Sigmund Freud / Carl Sagan
Alexander Girald “Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that...
Thoughts on { The manipulation of public opinion | Henrik Ibsen / Oscar Wilde / Allen Ginsberg / H.G. Wells / G.K. Chesterton / George Orwell / Rudyard Kipling
Peter Blake, Homage to Rauschenberg II, 2011 “Public opinion is an extremely mutable thing” Henrik Ibsen, An Enemy of the...
Thoughts on { Destruction | Walter Benjamin / Kurt Vonnegut / Aldous Huxley / Léon Bloy / Arthur Schopenhauer / William Blake / André Gide
Paul Klee, Berg-Landschaft, 1938 “Man could not both know and succumb. Meantime huge smoking cities arose, innumerable. Green leaves shrank...
Thoughts on { Narcissism, Love & Well-being | Erich Fromm, 1956-60
Caravaggio, Narcissus, 1594-1596 “The main condition for the achievement of love is the overcoming of one's narcissism. The narcissistic orientation...
Thoughts on { Roses | Proverbs from Around the World
André Edouard Marty, The Scent of Roses, 1924 "It is the belief in roses that makes them flourish." French Proverb...
Thoughts on { Distortion | Marcel Duchamp
Henri Matisse, Portrait of Madame Matisse (The Green Stripe), 1906 "Distortion came first from the fauves, who, in turn,were under...
Thoughts on { Possessions | Marie Kondō
Alain Biltereyst, untitled "The process of assessing how you feel about the things you own, identifying those that have fulfilled...
Thoughts on { A Picnic | Cyril Connolly | Mary Pope Osborne | Roy Lichtenstein | Olga Kurylenko | Elizabeth Enright | Alice Walker | Richard Brautigan | Tom Barrett | Dolly Parton
Édouard Manet, The Luncheon on the Grass, 1863 . “The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles,...