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The Triumph of Knowledge, Spranger

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Les Romaines De La Decadence 

The Romans in their Decadence 

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Greek Interior, Jean Leon Gerome

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The Birth of Venus, by Alexandre Cabanel

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Le Bain by E. Manet

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“The children we once were, she thought, live inside us like rings on a tree.”

— Simon Van Booy

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One of the most beautiful FRESCO ART I’ve ever seen.. plus one more that I got to see when visiting the archeological museum in Crete.

#Crete #ART #Fresco

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Think about the power of clarity. If you’ve assigned to yourself a list of things you must do then your just doing them without any mindfulness about whether you have any real momentum going, then it doesn’t yield to you what you want. Payoff has to be right here in the now not a future pay off. I breathe deeply because it feels good to breathe deeply not because tomorrow I will have benefited from having breathed deeply. Let it please you in your now. Would you rather be confused or clear minded? Lie in the understanding of how much you like clarity. And then think about what clarity feels like. The power of clarity. How good efficient and productive you feel. What good timing and balance you have in a state of clarity. And the momentum or clarity will make you feel the benefit of momentum. You might feel like a shower like a walk, not in a ritualistic way, the momentum calls you to all that you are and calls you to your empowerment.

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Original paintings are silent and still in a sense that information never is.

#Ways of Seeing #Berger

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“The camera isolated momentary appearances and in so doing destroyed the idea that images were timeless...What you saw was relative to your position in time and space. It was no longer possible to imagine everything converging on the human eye as on the vanishing point of infinity. 

This is not to say that before the invention of the camera men believed that everyone could see everything. But perspective organized the visual field as though that were indeed the ideal. Every drawing or painting that used perspective proposed to the spectator that he was the unique center of the world. The camera - and more particularly the movie camera - demonstrated that there was no centre. The invention changed the way men saw.. this was reflected in painting. For the Impressionists the visible no longer presented itself to man in order to be seen. On the contrary, the visible, in continual flux, became fugitive...

The uniqueness of every painting was once part of the uniqueness of the place where it resided. Sometimes the painting was transportable. But it could never be seen in two places at the same time. When the camera reproduces a painting, it destroys the uniqueness of its image.

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#williamblake #beautifulart #painting

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Mystification

“Mystification has little to do with the vocabulary used. Mystification is the process of explaining away what might otherwise be evident. ”

“In order to avoid mystifying the past ... let us now examine the particular relation which now exists... between the present and the past. If we can see the present clearly enough, we shall ask the right questions of the past.”

Excerpt From Ways of Seeing John Berger This material may be protected by copyright.

#art #waysofseeing #johnberger #favoritequotes #gnreaders

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Happiness is a god who walks empty-handed

Henri De Regnier

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A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire

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Astonishing the Gods

“I love your silence. It is so wise. It listens. It invites warmth. I love your loneliness. It is brave. It makes the universe want to protect you. You have the loneliness that all true heroes have, a loneliness that is a deep sea, within which the fishes of mystery dwell. I love your quest. It is noble. It has greatness in it. Only one who is born under a blessed star would set sail across the billowing waves and the wild squalls, because of a dream. I love your dream. It is magical. Only those who truly love and who are truly strong can sustain their lives as a dream. You dwell in your own enchantment. Life throws stones at you, but your love and your dream change those stones into the flowers of discovery. Even if you lose, or are defeated by things, your triumph will always be exemplary. And if no one knows it, then there are places that do. People like you enrich the dreams of the world, and it is dreams that create history. People like you are unknowing transformers of thing, protected by your own fairy-tale, by love.”

#Quotes #BenOkri