Rose Au Cœur Violet.

[philosophybits]

“In seeing things to be or not to be, fools fail to see a world at ease.”

— Nāgārjuna, Mūlamadhyamakakārikā, Batchelor tr. (Ch 5)

[thedrownedcathedral]

Hilma af Klint (Swedish, 1862-1944), The Parsifal Series, Group I, No 1. 2 October 1916. Watercolour and graphite on paper, 25 x 26cm.

[a-book-is-a-garden]

“The future we want must be invented, otherwise we will get one that we don’t want.”

— Joseph Beuys

[thepursuitofunderstanding]

“People…often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everyone else aiming there as well that makes it very hard and expensive to hit. I prefer to shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it. You make the niches in which you finally reside.”

— Brian Eno

[anticbrvtalist]

Günter Brus. From Actionism to Death

[philosophybits]

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment

[dreams-of-mutiny-deactivated202]

“All sorts of things in this world behave like mirrors.”

― Jacques Lacan

[nemfrog]

Solar eclipse, 1870. Worlds in the making. 1908.

Internet Archive

[gefuehlsamok]

26.Nov 1965, Joseph Beuys

|Wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt 

„Für mich ist der Hase das Symbol für die Inkarnation, Denn der Hase macht das ganz real, was der Mensch nur in Gedanken kann. Er gräbt sich ein, er gräbt sich einen Bau. Er inkarniert sich in die Erde, und das allein ist wichtig. So kommt er bei mir vor. Mit Honig auf dem Kopf tue ich natürlich etwas, was mit denken zu tun hat. Die menschliche Fähigkeit ist, nicht Honig abzugeben, sondern zu denken, Ideen abzugeben. Dadurch wird der Todescharakter des Gedankens wieder lebendig gemacht. Denn Honig ist zweifellos eine lebendige Substanz. Der menschliche Gedanke kann auch lebendig sein. Er kann aber auch intellektualisierend tödlich sein, auch tot bleiben, sich todbringend äußern etwa im politischen Bereich oder der Pädagogik."

[petaltexturedskies]

To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.

Novalis

[philosophybits]

“If the satisfaction of an old man drinking a glass of wine counts for nothing, then production and wealth are only hollow myths; they have meaning only if they are capable of being retrieved in individual and living joy. The saving of time and the conquest of leisure have no meaning if we are not moved by the laugh of a child at play. If we do not love life on our own account and through others, it is futile to seek to justify it in any way.”

— Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics of Ambiguity

[zegalba]

Tereza Zelenkova

[hyperions-fate]

What lives is indestructible, stays free in its most deeply servile form, stays intact and though you split it to the ground, stays unscathed and though you shatter it to the marrow, and its essence flies away in triumph through your fingers.

Hölderlin, Hyperion (1799)

[thinkingimages]

Sasha Kurmaz

[zurich-snows]

“The blindness that opens the eye is not the one that darkens vision. Tears and not sight are the essence of the eye.”

—

Jacques Derrida

[robert-hadley]

ERWIN BLUMENFELD - Wet Veil, 1937

[dame-de-pique]

Flowers, c.1910