#Italo-Calvino

[soupandcats]

Design midterm! The quote is from invisible cities!

#illustration #my art #soupandcats #traditional illustration #traditional art #gouache #gouache painting #art school #midterms #invisible cities #italo calvino #elsewhere is a negative mirror #traditional painting #painting #paint

[metaphrasis]

“I, too, feel the need to reread the books I have already read," a third reader says, "but at every rereading I seem to be reading a new book, for the first time. Is it I who keep changing and seeing new things of which I was not previously aware? Or is reading a construction that assumes form, assembling a great number of variables, and therefore something that cannot be repeated twice according to the same pattern? Every time I seek to relive the emotion of a previous reading, I experience different and unexpected impressions, and do not find again those of before. At certain moments it seems to me that between one reading and the next there is a progression: in the sense, for example, of penetrating further into the spirit of the text, or of increasing my critical detachment. At other moments, on the contrary, I seem to retain the memory of the readings of a single book one next to another, enthusiastic or cold or hostile, scattered in time without a perspective, without a thread that ties them together. The conclusion I have reached is that reading is an operation without object; or that its true object is itself. The book is an accessory aid, or even a pretext.”

— Italo Calvino, If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

#Italo Calvino

[lisamarie-vee]

#italo calvino #book cover #invisible cities #1970s #b&w

[undinesea]

What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

Italo Calvino, from If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

#italo calvino #quotes

[kafkasapartment]

"Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else."

Italo Calvino, “Invisible Cities”

#italo calvino #books #reading #philosophy #quotes #excerpts #psychology

[fellshish]

A bad writing teacher can really mess you up even if you know they’re wrong

#writing #srry. still Going Through It a bit #told this guy (who has never read anything i wrote) that humour is one of my core traits in my writing #and he went off about humour so often devaluing writing and being a shield and often takes away from the text #like wtf #and then he pulled out italo calvino?????? my dude. my man. CALVINO uses humour!!! f off #sorry for ranting #it just. got under my skin. and i feel types of ways about my writing now

[davidhudson]

Pier Paolo Pasolini and Italo Calvino.

#pier paolo pasolini #italo calvino #cinema #film #movies #literature

[nobeerreviews]

The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.

-- Italo Calvino

(Chania, Greece)

#past #cities #history #italo calvino #travel photography #chania #greece #quote #street photography #old streets #old cities

[derangedrhythms]

In writing, what speaks is what is repressed.

Italo Calvino, The Castle of Crossed Destinies; from 'I Also Try to Tell My Tale', tr. William Weaver

#italo calvino #the castle of crossed destinies #prose #on writing

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

- Italo Calvino

#calvino #italo calvino #quote #melancholy #sadness #lightness #art #femme #pyschology #human nature

[eleonorasimoncini]

Leggerezza,solo quella.

#lezioni americane #italo calvino

[soupandcats]

Invisible cities drawing I gave up on

#elsewhere is a negative mirror #digital art #digital illustration #artwork #drawing #illustration #art #procreate #invisible cities #italo calvino #unfinished #gave up #soupandcats

[caostalgia]

“No puede haber amor si no se es uno mismo con todas sus fuerzas.”

Italo Calvino, Libro: El barón rampante

#caostalgia #abril 2024 #dia del libro #notas #frases #citas #escritos #textos #pensamientos #en tu orbita #amor #tristeza #italo calvino #el baron rampante #Eventura

[andrea-non-sa-tornare]

#pensieri #thinking #poetic #versi #pensieri sparsi #love #amore #citazioni #raccontare #frasi italiane #frasi tumblr #italo calvino #il barone rampante #conoscersi #racconti #letteratura italiana #letterature #letteratura #conoscenza

[undinesea]

From mirror to mirror — this is what I happen to dream of — the totality of things, the whole, the entire universe, divine wisdom could concentrate their luminous rays into a single mirror.

Italo Calvino, from If on a Winter's Night a Traveler

#italo calvino #quotes

[sofysta]

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#italo calvino #cit.