home / about this site / this series / contents           Artists are all meaning to create a life which is not. That is to say, a life which does not eat, procreate, or drink, but whichcan live in people who are alive. –Henry Green		larger
Exaggerate the essential . . . –Van Gogh's letter to Theo In Vedic times the Hindoos of old sent consumption away with a blue jay. They said, "O consumption, fly away, fly away with the blue jay! With the wild rush of the storm and the whirlwind, oh, vanish away!" –Frazer on the transference of evil Flying into the light . . . –Martha Graham on dance youth: loud, strong, wildly optimistic pioneer energy: ruggedness loneliness: evoking wide open spaces sentimental qualities: from hymnsinging –Leonard Bernstein on what American contemporary music embraces When I knew that a man was stealing, or a woman hustling, or some poor girl going nutty, or that a guy was on the lam or learned that a pimp was living with four women – it all seemed natural to me, an attitude given me by my mother , to whom nothing was ever terrible, vulgar, or nasty. –Boxcar Bertha Thompson
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