“Consider the momentous event in architecture when the wall parted and the column became.”
Louis Kahn
“It is advantageous to an author that his book should be attacked as well as praised. Fame is a shuttlecock. If it be struck only at one end of the room, it will soon fall to the ground. To keep it up, it must be struck at both ends.” – Samuel Johnson
Shuttlecock Artist – Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen
Imitation
by Edgar Allan Poe
A dark unfathomed tide
Of interminable pride –
A mystery, and a dream,
Should my early life seem;
I say that dream was fraught
With a wild and waking thought
Of beings that have been,
Which my spirit hath not seen,
Had I let them pass me by,
With a dreaming eye!
Let none of earth inherit
That vision of my spirit;
Those thoughts I would control,
As a spell upon his soul:
For that bright hope at last
And that light time have past,
And my worldly rest hath gone
With a sigh as it passed on:
I care not though it perish
With a thought I then did cherish
“A poem is never finished, only abandoned.” Paul Valéry
They swayed about upon a rocking horse, and thought it Pegasus. – John Keats
Bellerophon Taming Pegasus by Jacques Lipchitz
“Art does not solve problems but makes us aware of their existence.
It opens our eyes to see and our brain to imagine.”
Magdalena Abakanowicz
Statue
This statue was holding their toes
Losing head, arm, and all of their clothes.
Often when I visit a museum
Statues when I see them
Will be missing a head or an arm
And I wonder who would do a statue harm?
Like grave robbers of old
Perhaps there’s a market where body parts are sold.
The living create
The dead donate
R ~
Eros
The sense of the world is short,
Long and various the report,
To love and be beloved;
Men and gods have not outlearned it;
And, how oft soe’er they’ve turned it,
‘Tis not to be improved.
“Fine art is that in which the hand, the head, and the heart of man go together.” – John Ruskin
“I know it doesn’t make sense. Nothing in Hollywood does.”
Thomas Hart Benton
Maverick Mist 
