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Love is a bet, a wild one, placed on freedom. Not my own; the freedom of the Other
Like all the great creations of humanity, love is twofold: it is the supreme happiness and the supreme misfortune… Lovers pass constantly from rapture to despair, from sadness to joy, from wrath to tenderness, from desperation to sensuality… The lover is perpetually driven by contradictory emotions. Popular language, in all times and all places, abounds in expressions that describe the vulnerability of a person in love: love is a wound, an injury. But as St. John of the Cross says, it is “a wound that is a gift,” a “gentle cautery,” a “delightful wound.” Yes, love is a flower of blood. It is also a talisman: the vulnerability of lovers protects them. Their shield is their lack of defense; their armor is their nakedness."
"you need to both remember where love leads and love anyway,” Paz writes:
All loves are ill-starred, because all are made of time, all are the fragile bond between two temporal creatures who know they are going to die. In all loves, even the most tragic, there is an instant of happiness that it is no exaggeration to call superhuman: it is a victory over time, a glimpse of the other side, of the there that is a here, where nothing changes and everything that is, truly is.
Octavio Paz
“Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still.”
Eliot
Cohen returned to the subject of Dylan when talking about the way he writes songs. “I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us: you don’t write the songs anyhow,” he said. “So if you’re lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you’re lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this. You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you’re actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.”
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/oct/14/leonard-cohen-giving-nobel-to-bob-dylan-like-pinning-medal-on-everest?CMP=fb_gu
"Being an artist every day, you take the chance of going mad. Because you find yourself in situations that are past the point of logic you understand"
As Robert Oppenheimer said a short while before he died, "It is perfectly obvious that the whole world is going to hell. The only possible chance that it might not is that we do not attempt to prevent it from doing so." You see, many of the troubles going on in the world right now are being supervised by people with very good intentions whose attempts are to keep things in order, to clean things up, to forbid this, and to prevent that. The more we try to put everything to rights, the more we make fantastic messes. Maybe that is the way it has got to be. Maybe I should not say anything at all about the folly of trying to put things to right but simply, on the principle of Blake, let the fool persist in his folly so that he will become wise.
Alan Watts, “Play to Live”
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every lie has truth in it.
Artists are people driven by the tension between the desire to communicate and the desire to hide
D.W. Winnicott
Louise Bourgeois, still sculpting weeks before her death at 98, said that the lack of interest in her art up to this point at least left her to work beautifully undisturbed.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/15/seven-ages-of-an-artist-laura-cumming
Everyone has talent at 25,” Degas sardonically observed, “the difficulty is to have it still at 50.
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/15/seven-ages-of-an-artist-laura-cumming
The Japanese master Hokusai was one day found weeping at his workbench because he believed he had not yet learned enough about drawing. He was 80. On his deathbed, eight years later, he cried out, “If heaven would only grant me 10 more years, I might still become a great artist.”
www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/15/seven-ages-of-an-artist-laura-cumming
To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities — I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt, the torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I have no pity for them, because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not — that one endures.
Nietzsche
Independence
Attaining independence from the “show” of life. Deriving pleasure from the things we do, by doing it well. It is true, when I am most satisfied with what I have done, what people think is least important. so then i return to the definition of genius as I understood it to mean.
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/12/09/albert-einstein-fame-letter/
The artist … must consecrate all his toil to the holy spirit of art — such toil is holy, chaste, and demands single-heartedness.
Dostoevsky
Van Gogh
https://www.brainpickings.org/2016/04/20/van-gogh-heartbreak/
