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“the various avant-garde ‘isms’ were not supposed to replace one another. Each conceived itself as the terminal ‘ism.’ But we’ve discovered that there is no terminal ‘ism’; the messiah doesn’t come. History doesn’t end—although particular histories end.”
—Sontag
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🖌 Dalí
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A mirror remains that can’t be broken / because it faces nothing, / because it’s inside everything.
— Roberto Juarroz
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He Huaishuo, Wilderness
Jack Butler Yeats, R.H.A., A horseman enters a town at night, 1948, Oil on canvas
Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Torment of Saint Anthony, c. 1487-88, Tempera and oil on panel
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Gentleness is calm. It radiates from the eye of the storm, witnessing its unchained forces and remaining untouched itself. Calm is a supreme power.
—Anne Dufourmantelle
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Xue Liang, Sound of the Autumn
